autobiography - Stories

Rigby, impossibly innocent, swaps suffocating middle-class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London. Revelling in the freedom granted by anonymity, he becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, teacher and resolute seeker of new experiences while living and travelling in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, when travellers were uncommon.

{A year ago I posted several chapters, then stopped because I needed to make a few changes. Apologies to those who began reading, only to have it rudely terminated.

Spelling throughout is English English.}

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A response to Prompt #694 - Creative

Tag - First Line, I'm tired of this, so I'm going home!

It prompted me to think of an event in my past and decided to share, maybe give you something to think about.

It's reasonably accurate and factual.

A poem about the cruelty of society to homosexuals in the nineteen fifties.

My wedding Vows that I finally got to read to my husband when we got married in April 2008.

Samuel's friends are all very distinctive, but one of them will turn his world upside down.

Coming out has never been so fun. Follow me on my journey as I come out to various teams and fellow athletes. These are true stories, though names have been changed to protect everyone's identities.

This will be a collection for most of my poetry. Hope you'll find it appealing. Some of it will be Mature, so pay attention to the chapter notes.

This is a story about my growing up,becoming myself and the fellow gay guys I meet along the journey of life in a windy and unkind society towards gay people.

poems written when I was 21 years old

1n 1972 a 13 year old boy develops an obsession with Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz and confronts some uncomfortable truths about himself.