race change

It was on a rainy evening at a public house in New York when I met the man, and I shall never forget the tale he told me. I should explain. It wasn’t just any public house; it catered to men who fancied other men, one of several off-the-beaten-path establishments that had begun to surface in...

“Oooh, Sammy has a new boyfriend!” The running joke amongst the other guys in the stock room was that whoever got stuck with the trainee had a new boyfriend for the week. It’s the silly sort of thing a bunch of bro types say to tease each other. Harmless, if annoying. Unless you were deep in...