National Coming Out Day

[erastes]

Happy Birthday eri_quito who writes wonderful gay poetry.

It's National Coming Out Day in America today and not here, but I'm waving my flag and sharing my story like my friends are.

I was very lucky when I met the first woman I slept with, beautiful, free-sprited, talented. Can't see what she saw in me!  Her husband had just been chucked into prison for possession of a miniscule amount of cannibis - on a disgusting two year sentence and she moved in with me for a while. I remember she had amazing hair, dead straight in a Louise Brooks style and it really suited her. We got drunk and - well we ended up in bed together.  The next day we acted as if nothing had happened. (although it happened again a few times, but not terribly often) I remember feeling a little confused for an hour or two, but then I had good training, I'd been reading Robert Heinlein since I was 15 or so and I firmly believed - and still do to this day - that love and sex can be exclusive of eachother (obviously) and that it's the person that matters and the gender has no impact on that at all.

I have slept with a few women since, not a vast amount but strangely, while I find it easy to bed men with whom I have little or no connection with other than "Phwoar", all the women I've slept with have been friends first and continue to be so. That's something I've rarely managed with men. I'm either friends OR lovers with men. Rarely both.

I know some bi-sexuals who have had a bad time with the gay and lesbian crowd - and that's hard to accept. It's hard for me to accept that gays and lesbians - two factions that should be more tolerant than most have their own bigotry.  I haven't had that problem, but then I never hung with any clique, and now I'm too old and honery to put up with it.

Junction X moves along, just finished chapter 15 and the book has hit 50,000 words. It's hard, really hard. I've doubted myself every step of the way on this one, whether this is the right time to write this book, whther it would be a better book if I left it for a few years but my readers are helping me not give up. I suppose that's what writing is for me, anyway, it has to be a challenge, or there's no point to it.

Comments

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

Yeah I do them for my spotlight and for Queer Girl Talk now. It's been a blast. So you want me to set ya up for the 20th or wait until Feb?

Also, are you interested in the guest blog spot in Tues or is that too short notice?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to do that - what would I have to do?

Do you have a chat programme?

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

email me at moondancerdrake@gmail.com and we can talk details :)