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But Gambone’s thrust is the present. Imagine a gay romance that includes laugh lines and life lessons. You just have to listen. Besides, there’s a fair amount of unrequited attraction among his characters, and all of the sexually charged scenes, whether consummated or not, are really about character. Your work will be better for it.
They lived. Interestingly, they’ve got stories.
Many survived a time when being out meant losing your job, your family, or worse. They remember when “coming out” was an act of courage, not content.
Want emotional stakes in your writing? First names for everyone! Technically, that’s not true.
When we were about to adopt Emma, Guy and I had an ongoing friendly debate about who would be papa and who would be daddy.
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The Many-Splendored Loves of Older Gay Men
Queer baby boomers are now elders, the first generation to grow old after Stonewall. Now retired, he spent his life teaching high-school English and college-level writing in the Boston area.
Watched marriage equality bloom. Don’t.
Though the kids ended up calling adults by their first names often, because well.. Live it. He is strikingly efficient with detail and description, offering just enough about clothes, décor, and appearance to enhance one’s understanding of character and setting but not so much as to create an indulgent soup of symbolism.
Guy wanted have them do it the barbaric, I mean modern, way.
The thing is, I wouldn’t change it for the world now, I love being called papa. So this conversation went on a bit until I asked Kama (SIL) what he called grandparents as a local Hawaiian.
He said “Tutu”. In my latest book, Something About Martin, you’ll find an unexpected friendship, a chosen family, and the quiet power of two people from different generations rescuing each other.
It’ll stretch you. Just write them as being human.
In real life, striking up a conversation with someone older can flip your script.