A New Beginning

A New Beginning 5

 

Monday May 3, 2004

 

9:36 PM

 

I recently began going to Sumshees’ coffee shop. It’s actually a queer night spot which stays open well after the bars do, but serves all non alcoholic beverages. It really is a great place to hang out and get to know some really neat people. So far I have met at least one guy whose not only HIV+ but also really sweet. He isn’t much to look at really but I’m beginning to understand the concept of beauty being only skin deep. What I mean by that is this, most guys HIV or not would have freaked out after hearing much less seeing my ass before the surgery had healed. Not only did he not freak out about, he helped me redress the wounds and still wanted to have at least as much sex with me as we could without hurting me. That is what I mean by beauty only being skin deep. It really isn’t what we see amid the outer shell of a persons’ body, but what kind of person they are beneath it all that should be looked at most.

 

I also met a truly beautiful man from Iran who was Muslim, but converted to the Bahai faith because all his Muslim people convinced him that he could not be Gay and Muslim. I personally believe that to be just as much a crock of shit as people who say one can’t be Christian and Gay at the same time. These are ignorant people who do not know the difference between their ass hole and a hole in the ground. They are no one to tell anyone what faith they can practice and what kind of predispositioned life they can live. You let me convert to Islam and see what I tell one of those Iatolas when they spout out that meaningless, rhetorical, ignorant Bull shit to me. See if I wouldn’t let them have a really big piece of my mind. They’re the ones who shouldn’t be a leader of any kind of anybody. You get the shit cleaned out of your own back yard before you start condemning me about mine, you fucking ass hole. At any rate the people who told him he could not be Gay and still be a Muslim are nothing short of ignorant. I truly pity them and I hope that Baharam eventually sees that he can be just as much a Muslim if he wants to be as any one of his “so called strait mentors.” If he is happy with being Bahai more power to him. He is truly one of the most kind, caring, compassionate, loving and understanding men I’ve ever met. I could only describe him as a Jesus/Ghandi combo. He is truly a beautiful man inside and out. I grew to love him in only a matter of minutes.

I have met some other very nice people there as well. Those who work there and some others are very nice. I met a very sweet 16-year-old boy who comes in on the weekends with his father. They are both very nice.  Some of the really great people I’ve met there are going to be moving out of state within a month or two. I will miss them but I’m making more friends there all of the time. I hope those who leave will come back for visits.

 

I’m only staying home tonight because I have things to do tomorrow that I have to get up somewhat early for. I have to go shopping with Randy tomorrow, wash his laundry and mine and then we’re going to go to Sumshees’ together. I want to go with him and introduce him to some people to help him to come out the same shell of isolation that I have been in myself for some time now. That basically happened when I lost my job at Connections. Now that I can’t go back to work until approximately June 1st I plan to do odd jobs hear and there to at least make enough money for cigarettes, food and going to Sumshees’. I am going to ask Mr. Sumshee if he will let me work for him doing tasks of a personal but ethical nature.

 

That appears to be all I’ve got for now. Until I write again, so long.   

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