Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 10, 2017 6:41:47 GMT
Mar 9, 2017 15:46:07 GMT @jamesavalon said:
Guy, A good friend of my family - who we have known since he was a boy - is a hugely successful gay man who has worked his way to the top of the corporate ladder and is now a top executive with the Mercedes Benz Company. His mother, Claire, now 80, a passionate committed christian who doesn't believe in evolution, did not even know Guy was gay until he came out to her at the age of 30.
Claire, who quickly got over her shock and still loves Guy as much as she always did, is a close friend of mine and a highly intelligent and capaple, if sometimes blinkered and self involved, woman, who is still working as a book-keeper for a law firm, but we have different views on lots of things. I never realized that she didn't know Guy was gay.
I must point out at this stage that Claire, although bizarrely unaware of her son's true sexuality for so long is not and has never has been a homophobic person who was vehemently against gay men and women.
However Clare, her late husband and their two children, Guy and Kate, would spend every summer with us when were children. Not that he ever told my middle brother or I in so many words back then, but Guy knew he was gay from the time he was about five-years-old, and my younger brother and I (who were aged about 10 and 12 when Guy was five, and are both heterosexual) knew even then that his true sexuality was different to ours. Call it intuition, but I assure you we knew. Were my brother and I so much more intelligent and perceptive than you were at that age jamesavalon?
I should also mention to you that I grew up in one of the most reppressive, racist and conservative countries in the world - ruled with an iron fist by one of the cruelest, uncoolest governing parties in history.
My working class parents, however, taught us to love, respect and accept everyone; even their more "flambuoyant" male friends and associates, and female relatives with close-cropped haired and severe shoes.