My roommate wasn’t home and usually my mom and I could talk about anything, especially if my feelings were involved so I called her at 9 PM and told her. Well, I wasn’t going to be feeling any better after this call. She didn’t say anything at first. The first thing that came out of her mouth is such a gay cliche´, “Do you need to see a psychiatrist?” I couldn’t believe it. I answered “No, thanks Mom, I’ll talk to you later.”
One of the sponsors of this years Lezzy Awards was Enlightenment Productions. They are the production company behind two great movies; I Can’t Think Straight and World Unseen. This past weekend I sat down with a banana and I Can’t Think Straight. Take a look at the films trailer below. The film stars Lisa Ray [...]
The first party we went to Kathy tried to get me in a bathroom alone at ever turn to make out or worse, and I was not well for it. My worlds we separate in my mind. She could come but I did not want to take any chance on someone seeing a touch or a glance that would reveal our secret. We talked. She reluctantly agreed but things did not get any better. She seemed to be bolder and bolder as if she now wanted people to know about us.
We ended with me figuring out that was exactly what I was. Gay.
Even so, I was not ready for the world to know and the woman I had picked to lead me through the murky waters of homosexuality had a true reputation for being bisexual that she was proud not to discredit. She assured me she would keep us a secret and going back to school after that last bit of summer, kissing and talking, learning about myself and my feelings, it had been a different world than what I was walking back into a school.
This weekend I finally had time to watch some of the movies I’ve been putting off. The first of which was And Then Came Lola. A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn’t make it to a crucial meeting on [...]
