Boy Meets Boy
Chapter One
Now away we go
9 p.m. on a November Saturday. Joni, Tony, and I are out on the
town. Tony is from the next town over and he needs to get out. His
parents are extremely religious. It doesn't even matter which
religion-they're all the same at a certain point, and few of them
want a gay boy cruising around with his friends on a Saturday night.
So every week Tony feeds us bible stories, then on Saturday we show
up at his doorstep well versed in parables and earnestness, dazzling
his parents with our blinding purity. They slip him a twenty and
tell him to enjoy our study group. We go spend the money on romantic
comedies, dimestore toys, and diner jukeboxes. Our happiness is the
closest we'll ever come to a generous God, so we figure Tony's
parents would understand, if only they weren't set on
misunderstanding so many things.
Tony has to be home by midnight, so we are on a Cinderella mission.
With this in mind, we keep our eye on the ball.
There isn't really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They
got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best. Back
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