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- Author: David Levithan
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Now away we go
9 P.M. on a November Saturday. Joni, Tony, and I are out on the
town. Tony is from the next town over and he needs to get out. His
parents are extremely religious. It doesn’t even matter which
religion—they’re all the same at a certain point, and few of them
want a gay boy cruising around with his friends on a Saturday
night. So every week Tony feeds us bible stories, then on Saturday
we show up at his doorstep well versed in parables and earnestness,
dazzling his parents with our blinding purity. They slip him a
twenty and tell him to enjoy our study group. We go spend the
money on romantic comedies, dimestore toys, and diner jukeboxes.
Our happiness is the closest we’ll ever come to a generous God, so
we gure Tony’s parents would understand, if only they weren’t set
on misunderstanding so many things.
Tony has to be home by midnight, so we are on a Cinderella
mission. With this in mind, we keep our eye on the ball.
There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They
got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best. Back
when I was in second grade, the older gay kids who didn’t ee to
the city for entertainment would have to make their own fun. Now
it’s all good. Most of the straight guys try to sneak into the Queer
Beer bar. Boys who love boys irt with girls who love girls. And
whether your heart is strictly ballroom or bluegrass punk, the dance
oors are open to whatever you have to oer.
This is my town. I’ve lived here all my life.
Tonight, our Gaystafarian bud Zeke is gigging at the local chain
bookstore. Joni has a driver’s license from the state where her
grandmother lives, so she drives us around in the family sedan. We
roll down the windows and crank the radio—we like the idea of our
music spilling out over the whole neighborhood, becoming part of
the air. Tony has a desperate look tonight, so we let him control the
dial. He switches to a Mope Folk station, and we ask him what’s
going on.
“I can’t say,” he tells us, and we know what he means. That
nameless empty.
We try to cheer him up by treating him to a blue Slurp-Slurp at
the local 24-7. We each take sips, to see whose tongue can get the
bluest. Once Tony’s sticking his tongue out with the rest of us, we
know he’s going to be okay.
Zeke’s already jamming by the time we get to the highway
bookstore.
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