Contents:
- THE LBIAN WRER AND HER FLAMBOYANT GAY HBAND
- PETER CETERA IS GAY
- PETER PORTE - GAY RUMORS CONFIRMED WH PARTNER AND OTHER FACTS
THE LBIAN WRER AND HER FLAMBOYANT GAY HBAND
Early was wildly handsome, gay, wh soulful brown ey and a head full of loose, unly curls. Once, the middle of wter Washgton Square Park, I watched him unbutton his at and drape across the shoulrs of a dnk who had jt lled him a homophobic slur. I was an ex-Christian and newly out lbian fleeg the vlent homophobia of the late 1990s Jamai, still wearg the fury of beg attacked by a dozen boys and sexually asslted Kgston.
PETER CETERA IS GAY
Except he wasn’t gay, or a poet.
PETER PORTE - GAY RUMORS CONFIRMED WH PARTNER AND OTHER FACTS
We often lled each other to remisce about Peter, to reunt the sorcery of him, to bask the shared memory of his, when I beme antic wh the sire to start a fay — chasg gay men at hoe parti, beggg sperm om strangers on plan — I broke down and wept for what felt like the too-early ath of my hband.
I wanted to be the badass lbian wrer, wh the flamboyant gay hband, raisg four children a ramblg old hoe that ed to be a church, two blocks om the beach Far one nversatn wh CJ, he terpted to ask if there was a way he uld stand for Peter, by givg me his sperm. His brothers, their wiv, Peter’s grandmother, his father, me, my non-monogamo partner and a betiful hort of ordary folks, misfs, artists, preachers, wrers, activists, gay, straight, nonbary.