“When we talk about our moments of sexual awakening (a topic of conversation that seems to
“When we talk about our moments of sexual awakening (a topic of conversation that seems to crop up every time I have a glass of wine with a group of similarly minded pop culture obsessives), we often talk about scenes from film or television that pulled the sleeping adolescent out of our mostly still childlike bodies… For me it was always Mike and Scott, shirtless and in bed together in a decrepit hotel, mocking the city officials and police officers who have been sent to bring Scott to his family… So, simultaneously, I was turned on by the beauty of Mike and Scott, but I was also turned on by their relationship, which was at once sexual and fraternal and transient… And all of this was happening in a brain and body that had only just come out of childhood, I was learning about the plurality of sexuality and gender, and about the many ways love, relationships, and heartache can manifest.”— Jen Sookfong Lee, Gentlemen of the Shade. I know I say “same” a lot, but wow. Same. Same. Same. -- source link
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