My friend Gregg and I were talking about how gay men of our generation can sometimes feel overwhelmed by a sort of floundering in regards to our stations in life. We speculated that perhaps it's because the generation of gay men that came before us, the one the we should have been able to look to to set an example for us, or to lead the way and give us a little direction, well... they were sort of wiped out en masse by the AIDS epidemic. I know a few gay men older than me but only a handful... and it's a little odd to go out to a gay pride festival and see how many more people there are my age and younger proportionally to those generations older than me.
Anyway... I'm going somewhere with this. I read a tribute today to a 19-year old gay-games participant who died recently in a car crash. It's sad... but I'm somehow heartened that he was out and that he had so many mentors.
I agree that there is no gay direction for men like us. I don't have many, no strike that, I don't have any older gay male friends. I am starting to read up on Buddism because the whole Judeo-Christian thing just doesn 't work for me.
I also wanted to let you knwo I haven't been around awhile, but I plan on getting caught up on your blog.
As a gay teacher I was pretty much warned by our union that posting anything about yourself online (blog, your own website, etc.) is open for criticism if I want to criticize anything. I want to be able to spat about our education system, federal , state, and local; but pretty much agree with the union not to go there.
Posted by: flyte44 | March 15, 2007 at 07:38 PM