Queer Writing for a Queer World
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.
I’m looking forward to 2020. I hope that the new year will bring a new confidence and a chance for me to finally put a very stressful and demanding year behind me. I am starting the new year in a good place with a determination to start looking after myself and take time out just for me. I hope I can keep it up!
All the best to all of you and enjoy the festive break.
//Bog Off – Chapter 27 by Tom
//Bog Off – Chapter 26 by Tom
Sorry for the long gap between updates, but sometimes life gets in the way
//Bog Off – Chapter 25 by Tom
M/V Lady Jean Peterson – Chapter 24 by BobbyG
//Follow @DavidHeulfryn Check out my new Twitter, I’ve been playing with it for a few months and just about got the hang of it.
Not everything I post will be queer related, but some will. I will also post about things that interst me – James Bond, Doctor Who, a little bit of politics (not too much though), the occasional video I find funny or poignant and few nice bodies (but it won’t just be sexy guys). Take a look and follow me.
//The Large family travel to Tom’s university of choice to make sure he it’s definatly the place he want to study when he leaves college. The Large boys stay in a hotel room overnight, but Rob, the youngest deserts them to sleep in their parents room when the boys’ play fighting gets too boistrous. Tom and Will are left alone and their brotherly relationship goes to the next level.
//Bog Off – Chapter 24 by Tom
M/V Lady Jean Peterson – Chapter 23 by BobbyG
//Bog Off – Chapter 23 by Tom
M/V Lady Jean Peterson – Chapter 22 by BobbyG
//Bog Off – Chapter 22 by Tom
M/V Lady Jean Peterson – Chapter 21 by BobbyG
//Last weekend was the annual Pride march in my local city. I didn’t manage to go this year but my teenage nephew did. He went with a few friends, one identified as bi, one as pan and one as transexual; he self identifies as bisexual. All the young boys and girls (15 & 16 by the way) had a great time.
BUT…
Standing at the tram stop on their way back home a man walked by, with his young daughter. As he walked by he said “faggots” to my nephew and his group of friends. He saw the look on his daughter’s face, and he said she looked mortified.
My first reaction was to laugh out loud. How could someone be like that in the day and age and during Pride. It just sounded so ludicrous.
Then I got to thinking and all those thoughts from my youth came flooding back. How I was scared of anyone finding out about my sexuality for fear of being victimised and bullied. I could never have come out at school and I had to hide who I really was until I came out in my twenties.
Today people are more free to be themselves and that is a good thing. But there are still those people who feel they the right to shout abuse at others.