In my last story here, published January 1, I told you about my teenaged friend Wes and how he had surprised me by first coming out to me and then nearly immediately to his parents one springtime some sixteen years ago. Wes is now long grown up and we still talk sometimes, though never about this period in our lives. T...Separated from my wife now for several months and living alone, I had begun to make gay friends for the first time in my life. Up until this point I had lived in a rather complete and very dark denial of my sexual orientation, though I had many furtive sexual encounters with other boys growing up, and even right up thr...
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