Sunday, June 6, 2010

a brief meditation on the nature of gay pride

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the first time i participated in kelly stern's annual pride celebration, i used the occasion to tell my coming-out-in-california story.  being new to blogging, i had no idea what i was doing and the finished product turned out to be an overly-long, rambling, disorganized mess--but i was still proud of it.


by the following year i had my shit down, and the resulting story, one that had been inside me for years looking for a reason to come out, was easily as good as anything i've written before or since.


this year?  let's cut to the chase.

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whenever i'm driving with v and he reaches over and rubs the back of my neck, i always reflexively glance up at the rearview mirror to see if anybody's watching.

which is why i'll be featuring the above picture in my sidebar for the remainder of this and every other june in which kelly's and my blogs continue to co-exist--because gay boys and girls of the present and future should be able to live their lives without ever once having to give a fuck about who's watching.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

amen! thanks again for taking part...smooches

mkf said...

kelly: you're more than welcome--and btw, has anybody ever told you how damned good that photograph is?