Flashback

So I don't have cable. Which means I have no tv at all. It's theoretically saving me money; in reality I've used this as justification to expand my TLA video collection.

I recently purchased and watched "Longtime Companion." I forgot how much I love this movie, despite the fact that I have to watch it with a box of kleenex within easy reach. That last scene really hits me in ways that transcend "sadness". But as I was watching the movie, I noticed something that I hadn't thought about in, well, years.

It was the t-shirt that Fuzzy was wearing (pictured on the left here). It reminded me of my own coming out process, as well as a myriad of other thoughts/feelings associated with that time, which I haven't felt since I've become an old, cynical, bitter, jaded queen.

The other shirt that came to mind was one I had with a picture of Madonna, with a quote about emasculating heterosexual men.

"Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."

Two very in-your-face, yet incredibly empowering, t-shirts for a man who was just beginning his own coming-out process. It was an interesting emotional memory seeing that shirt.