Getting picked

The gay sex news from 60 years ago. It started with an e-mail exchange with my first male lover (Larry Schourup) about the course of our relationship back then. I’m pleased at having dredged up so much, but it is of course largely imaginative reconstruction, fictobiography, not bald narrative — I post often about the fragility of memory and the undependability of it due to its constant alteration over time — but I think I got a lot of emotional tones right. I then wondered whether he invited me or whether I had simply advanced on him (something that later in life I rarely did). And got a wonderful reply, which I quote from here with LS’s permission. The event, as summarized in my 8/7/26 posting “Crazed lunatic, ax murderer”: return with me to 1969 and my first male lover, Larry. I was in fact his first male lover as well. We both had had sexual experiences with other men, but what developed between us was a passionate connection of affection as well as raw sex, and I moved him into my…