Me - the gay. Diary.

Gay's blog.

Entries from 2016-09-01 to 1 month

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I recently watched the film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.Parts of it grated on me. Like the fact that the protagonist (who is characterized so that the audience assumes he has some type of autism) had major difficulty communicating ye…

From Lifelong Partners to Eternal Friends

Steven and Kenneth are two men. They both had same-gender attraction, were attracted to each other, decided to become partners, and have lived together for years.Today they're faithful, temple-worthy members of the Church.The first time I …

Allaying Terror

4:20pmI'm terrified. At noon today I scheduled a massage at the Utah College of Massage Therapy. The terror doesn't have a rationale to it. Maybe it's a holdover from being hypersensitive to touch for so many years. Maybe it's a holdover f…

Image

There are times I find myself incredibly conscious of what my body looks like, and sometimes feel something inside that says it isn't good enough. That feeling (thankfully) is rarely strong, but sometimes still there nonetheless. Look in a…