In honor of Pride 2025, I’d like to share a handful of stories that I take particular pride in, specifically for delving into various dimensions of non-Straight male sexuality, intimacy and desire that are about more than just the sex.
Deepening Our Friendship was my entry in the Rainbows competition celebrating Pride 2020, my first year writing on Lush. A night on the town with my longtime friend Theo leads him to reveal that his ex-girlfriend wanted a threesome with me. He wanted that too, but since she left him, he’s realized that he really wants a twosome. Maybe I do too.
In The Date Begins, the casual utterance of "It's a date" changes our expectations for what was intended as a simple reunion of old acquaintances. It has transformed into an actual date, complete with escalatingly sexy flirtations and vulnerable emotional revelations. It’s as strong a connection as I’ve had on a first date. So what if it's with someone named Mike?
Awareness starts off my extended Midlife Renewal series with a sudden realization about my running buddy and best friend Rick’s sexuality. This results in an even more startling realization about my own sexuality, which is definitely not the same as Rick's. Should that keep us from adding benefits to the best-friend menu? Continuing through the subsequent three short chapters will walk you through our entire first intimate evening together, as we work through not only sexual discovery but our asymmetric misgivings and inclinations.
In Thanksgiving Stuffing, a dysfunctional family get-together has piled misery on top of a recent breakup that was caused by misplaced homophobia. As I'm trying to wash away the ick, a empathetic and naked conversation with a gay friend exposes some misplaced homophobia of my own. Easing me through my final reluctances, Steve doesn’t “turn me gay” as my subconscious irrationally feared, but rather helps me become a fully functioning, confidently Bisexual man in the true culmination of my Becoming A Man series.
Skiing With Keith And Kate, my most widely-read story, has Kate catching me in a foolishly impulsive sex act with her boyfriend Keith. Kate should probably just walk out on him for this, leaving us drenched in semen and regret. Instead, she finds the strength to direct a frank conversation about the secret desires he’s been hiding from her. To everyone's surprise, including her own, she reveals secret desires she’s never discussed with him. The discussion that erupted from violated trust leads them to reconstruct their relationship upon a new set of rules around trust.
Deepening Our Friendship
A discussion of a threesome that almost happened turns into an actual twosome.
Bisexual