An excerpt om Ben McCormack's 2000 short film about a gay enunter a Sydney bathhoe
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BEN MCCORMACK'S SHORT FILM ABOUT A GAY ENUNTER A BATHHOE
* unexpected gay encounter *
Wolsey watched two guys talkg about how I was obvly wh another guy and gay (this time was our iend Dylan, and no we weren’t “together” but the night before we had gotten dnk and put on toenail polish, and we were jt hangg out at table) and they were approachg to e problems. However, as the guys approached Dylan and I stood up and immediately the two homophob stopped approachg and said somethg about beg “the biggt faggots they ever saw”, so that is now part of the si joke wh our group of iends, long before might be more te than they realized.
As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs.
While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out. I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on.
MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND
Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.