Queer Liberation March 2021 — photo: AleXander Hirka

Coming Out — Retracting Smoothly

Emerging Over The Years

I sucked my first penis when I was 13 years old.

We were playing a game, about 5 or 6 of us, in a basement in Brooklyn.
Bushwick—many many decades before it would become a hipster destination— was a diverse middle-class neighborhood. Some of my friends were white (ones I recall—one Italian, Joey, one Jewish, Sarah—an early crush), Spanish…