I remember as a teenager, secretly watching "Brideshead Revisited" on a little portable television in the little closet under the basement stairs of the home I grew up in. This was probably my first exposure to same-gender-love on television. I remember that watching Charles and Sebastian together helped to shatter many of the negative stereotypes that I loathed might become part of my own future. As I watched the weekly episodes which chronicled the rise and fall of their happiness and love, for the first time in my young life, I thought that love could perhaps be real, even for someone like me. Nevertheless, more than 20 years would pass before I finally accepted the truth of my own heart and the fact that I was as I had always known, a same-gender-loving man.
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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