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Jan 13

Ooh, I’ve got lots of these:

First we have my friend Johnny (under the yellow light) kissing Angus (under the red light), a guy that I worked with (and didn’t know was gay). I (under blue light) am unaware of what is happening behind me and am looking at Darryl, Johnny’s boyfriend (under green light) and wondering why he looks so mad.

After that incident I drove a very distraught Darryl home. He asked me to walk him to his apartment. I, who am absolutely incapable of knowing when I am being flirted with, obliged. We got to the apartment door and Darryl, in a literal “shut up and kiss me” moment, grabbed me and pulled me in for a kiss. At first I resisted, but then I thought of what Johnny had just done, so I said to hell with it. This whole sequence of events would become known as the Leather and Feather affair, because this happened the night of the gay bar’s “Leather and Feather night”.

Yes, I am wearing glow sticks hanging from my ears.

As it turned out, Johnny had already started the process of breaking up with Darryl because he was moving away to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Johnny was actually trying to push Darryl and myself together! It didn’t work out, though, because I don’t drink and Darryl was a raging alcoholic.

Next, a little further on in the story, we have me kissing my new boyfriend Troy in front of one of my oldest friends, to whom I had just minutes ago come out of the closet to.

And here we have our New Year’s Eve 1999 kiss. Happy 2000!

Troy and I would eventually get married:

And we are still together to this day (it will be 25 years in July).
Actual wedding photo:

The link:

Also I gotta do this challenge(?)
While there is no "shut up and kiss me" moment in Trespasser (yet), I do have a piece of art portraying such a moment.

Is it canon or not? Who knows, read Trespasser to find out :eyes: