There's a sweet flashfictn piece by Charl Paysr on Flashfictn Onle that highlights somethg awome about LGBT wrg today. It serv a read and a shout out. "A Lumberjack's Gui to Dryad Spottg" is probably about 1000 words, but tells a pretty big story about two gay lumberjacks that go beyond where I thought…
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“A Lumberjack’s Gui to Dryad Spottg” is probably about 1000 words, but tells a pretty big story about two gay lumberjacks that go beyond where I thought the story would go.
Our hero, a pair of gay lumberjacks who are subtle, but not that subtle, the mp about their relatnship, are prented as good lumberjacks: they get there early, they chop down tre. Even though the story tablish that the dryads have a hunger for human blood, and that they n be dangero and attack, the gay lumberjacks are savg the dryads– exchange for the dryads helpg the uple hi safety the future.
GAY LUMBERJACK SICK AND TIRED OF BEG MISTAKEN FOR A HIPSTER
I also enjoy the shout out to the diversy the LGBT muny—that the ma characters are “bears” (read: big beard hairy gay men). I also like where this story didn’t go: The other lumberjacks uld have “found them out” and hurt them and this would have been a predictable “hurt the gays” story—but the men’s reactns are plex: they both sire the eedom of the gay men to form a relatnship, and also have an imprsn that there is a fluidy to sexualy and the man you are mp is not the man you are back the “real world. The gay men are not some gay paradise–they are an allowed limbo that is cumbent upon tac ignorance and acceptance–a short-lived wdow of opportuny.
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"As a gay man, I n relate to what is still the opprsive stigma of homosexualy.