Tonyko

My experience was almost exactly the same. I think it was the summer when I was 10 year old (going into 5th grade) and they were paving the street in front of our house. This would have been somewhere around 1977. Young construction workers shirtless and wearing just cutoffs and boots. I watched them from my bedroom window all day long.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Funny you said that, we moved out of the city to the NYC burbs when I started HS and freshman year I SWIPED a guy in my class's socks at an impromptu pool party one nite lol. All the guys just took off their shirts sneakers n socks and jumped in in their jeans. This guy (also Italian) looked like a really young Tony Danza with longer hair and he was a weight lifter with one of those V bodies he drove me crazy. His socks were just sticking out of his sneakers so I took 'em. Had NO idea what I was gonna do with 'em but I wanted them. I remember him saying someone was dicking around and took his socks etc . BUT this guy was what led to the realization that I could IDENTIFY OTHERS that "went to our church". We had a music/drama teacher a middle aged guy a little on the nerdy side not effeminate just nerdy, and I got a part in the big musical that Fall (yah I know) which he directed. Anyway this boy lived near the school and we'd rehearse at night in the cafeteria with the doors open and sometimes guys would show up and wander in to disrupt things goof on us etc. But when HE wandered in one night in jeans and a tight white T-shirt instead of tossing him out the director let HIM stay. He'd sit on a table feet dangling and watch and the director would keep going over to him and talking to him explaining the show etc etc etc. And I SO remember thinking WHY is he being so nice to HIM??? Then I remember realizing because it was obvious (to ME anyway) that HE thinks of this boy the same way "I" do, like sexually. And WANTS him the same way I do. It was the first time I recognized without any spoken word or someone else saying something, that an "adult" was queer like me.

LOL. HS. Musical. It you took 5 guesses you'd get it lol. Bye Bye Byrdie. I was Hugo.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

Yes. And she LOOOOVED her gay son lol. Told EVERYONE how much fun we always have together going to shows shopping how much fun my friends were he took me here or there etc, more fun than with my bro or even my sis. I lost her this Spring. Miss her like crazy. Still pick up the phone like 10X a day cause I forget. Still haven't erased all her Vmails n stuff. It's weird cause you don't have a family of your own or a partner so it's like there's no one who gives a shit about you anymore. (I know not true of course, there's fam and wonderful friends etc) but this was the person who says call me when you get home put on a warm coat eat something call me when your plane lands go to the doctor etc etc you know stuff like that. It's so weird not having that anymore.

For MY generation what made my pre-pubecent insides go gaga was The Hardy Boys Mysteries, OMG I used to DREAM about Parker lol! I remember SCREAMING at my big brother to shutup when it was on and he was like whats the BFD it's just a stupid show etc ! But, like most memories their best left in your mind:rolleyes:
http://s3.postimg.org/y0an3mrnm/image.jpg

Yes, again, reruns with my Dad lol! Mission Impossible. Peter Lupus (sic) And btw I have heard of Bonanza and that other Western with Barbara Stanwyck NOW of course lol, but as a kid. "no" had no idea what they were.

I also remember something on PBS in the 70's that had to do with being gay, and my parents watching it, and me hiding in the hall behind them to watch and listen, again knowing it had something to do with me but also knowing I shouldn't tell anyone that. ALSO remember getting caught and sent back to bed.
(Oh YAH, and a realllly old monster movie that was a lot on Sat afternoons, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, a way bad 50's teen fright flick but I watched EVERY time it was on just for the main teen guy. Again, couldn't articulate why, but in retrospect I was excited by looking at his hot face and body :-)

this just reminded me of the legendary mid-1970s Sears catalog that had an underwear model who, reputedly, wasn't fully tucked in.....
 
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.asp
 
and did anybody peruse the Penney's and Sears catalogs, by the way??!!....that dude at far right seemed to be in every other underwear ad picture in the 70s....
 
http://tyflyguy.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/underwear.jpg

The NSW State Coroner has ordered a new inquest into the 1988 death of Scott Johnson, a gay American graduate student who was studying at the Australian National University in Canberra. His body was found at the bottom of cliffs near Manly on Sydney's northern beaches shortly after he had successfully completed his PhD thesis in maths. The first inquest in 1989 found his death to have been suicide, and a second inquest in 2012 returned an open finding. His was one of a number of suspicious deaths of gay men in Sydney in the 80s and 90s, a time when there were widespread reports of gay bashings, but police at the time were dismissive of that as a likely cause of Scott's, and others' deaths.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-13/scott-johnson-death-coroner-orders-new-inquest-gay-hate/6388428