Faggots
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Read between January 31 - February 6, 2018
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call dancing fairy sports. Fairy sports is our athletics.”
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Dancing is sports for faggots. We’re the best at it. And there’s no win or lose. No competition. No being last guy chosen in gym.”
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Dogs are faggot children.”
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How could he have made love with another human being and not remember?
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And were leather and jockstraps and football jerseys and satin boxing shorts all a send-up and a turn-on, and was this a clue to the faggot sensibility?
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New York is not the world. We are more sophisticated. The rest of the world is not sophisticated. The rest of the world is Main Street, the story of a doctor and his young wife.
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Why tell? They cannot understand. It will make them unhappy. Why upset apple carts? But Fred would respond with: Why must I go on leading a secret life in the back streets? This only means I am ashamed of myself and this life and I would like to stop being ashamed of this life and me and who and what I am.
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and since the Lemish name was not a graven image on the donors’ tablets, the services were short.
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Sleep was for lazies, drop-outs, unconcerneds, incompetents, misser-outers, and the plainly slags and drags.
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“My new definition of jaded is when you find a cock that’s too big.”
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Why am I being told all this?, Fred paused to wonder. This I didn’t need. What should I say and do? What the fuck is going on here? What the no-fuck is going on here?
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and use whatever information he would find to subtly force-feed their true and destined if reluctantly blooming love.
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what’s wrong with making our very own special place, with our dancing and drugs and jokes and clothes and music and brotherhood and fucking and our perfectly marvelous taste!”
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and Fred wonders what would happen if all their toys and all their costumes were taken away? They might be forced … to love.
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Yes, we were the quintessential faggots, Dinky. One cock teaser and one doormat. Afraid of love. Using our bodies as barter instead of our brains as heart.