Comments on: A place to call home

By: Gary Burns

Gary Burns — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:22:26 +0000

Dan my life has been tough.
The scars on my face and the back of my head from being poofta bashed are a constant reminder to me of just how tough it was for me as a young man to just live my life openly gay.
If there is one thing close to my heart it would have to be looking after gay teenagers.
Community to me means looking after each other.
Hopefully through my work gay teenagers wont have to struggle through life getting the shit kicked out of them.
Most people in the gay community see me as an idiot and a troublemaker but they misunderstand my works initiatives.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:24:35 +0000

i agree well said and also its the unspoken things that can hurt the most. also at a time like easter i think we could be thinking of others on the streets and who need services offered by organisations like twenty 10. gary thats brutal dude being whipped like an animal like that by ur own dad

By: Gary Burns

Gary Burns — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:07:09 +0000

William my father use to whip me with his stock whip.
He thought he could whip the sissy out of me.
It obviously didn’t work :)
I wish we in the 70’s had agency’s like Twenty 10 cause the room I had to stay in as a teenager had rats as big as baby rabbits.

By: William

William — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:21:33 +0000

You know what ~ I wish I had things like this to read when I was a teenager and I believed I was a “freak.” This was what my father called me as he broke the coffee table over my head. I will absolutely tell young gays and lesbians about the incredible services offered by Twenty 10.

Hopefully they get to read articles like this. Thank you Twenty 10 and thank you Star Observer for this.

By: Gary Burns

Gary Burns — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Well said and well written.