Growg Up Gay

Contents:

• PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S
• 'THERE WERE NO MOLS': GROWG UP THE 70S WH AN OUT GAY DAD
• GAY MEN AND AGG
• GROWG UP GAY
• GUT OPN: I GREW UP GAY ALABAMA THE 70′S, TODAY’S KIDS MAY HAVE HARR

PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

It was tough growg up gay the 70s. Image livg a town wh no Gaydar, no Grdr, no Scff, no gay bars, no gay clubs, no gay snas, no gay magaz, no gay bookshops, no gay film and no gay lerature. We joke now about beg the ‘only gay the village’ but that was the realy.

The only gay people I ever saw were on TV; Kenh Williams, John Inman, Larry Grayson and Quent Crisp, figur that, back then, I reiled om.

I was a ‘homosexual’. The Brannia, was the only gay bar town and was only gay on the first Sunday of every month, and only on one si of the bar. He was the first gay man I’d ever seen the flh.

'THERE WERE NO MOLS': GROWG UP THE 70S WH AN OUT GAY DAD

Then, wh fac ked makp, we’d make our way to The Brannia, like teenage Avon Ladi off to a gay prom night.

About the same time that a new vis was beg intified the US, I was already disverg that the lure of gay sex uld be a adly pursu.

GAY MEN AND AGG

An elephant’s gay graveyard.

GROWG UP GAY

In fact, the clientele were so old that felt like we were a new breed of gay man, disverg ourselv early life, rather than upon retirement.

GUT OPN: I GREW UP GAY ALABAMA THE 70′S, TODAY’S KIDS MAY HAVE HARR

We’d had ltle straight sex tn at school, so obvly knew nothg about what gay men were supposed to do. It had a gay bar that was open every night. I’d never seen a gay man wear mouflage troers before.

It was such a revelatn that gay men uld drs anythg but effemate clothg that om then on I knew I had to leave that town.