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Moody & Gay

A memoir project, one essay at a time.

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MEMOIR: Scene 1: 'Someone who cares about you asked that we reach out'

Picture It: Beacon Hill, Boston, the month after 9/11, I'm 18 years old, my first semester of college and hiding a psychotic break + my homosexuality.

I'm writing a book.

Which completely changes how I need to approach Substack.

My First Time: A Betrayal, A Choice.

How a chance encounter in a parking lot led to my liberation.

The Blank Years

How I Shapeshifted Myself Out of Sight

Thwarted Threeways & Lingering Regrets

When not fighting can be a form of cheating, too.

Exploiting Myself (unsuccessfully)

Imagine finally sharing your most personal creation only to hide behind your sex appeal (and still failing...

How to Make a Diamond

By falling in love with an HIV positive man, 6 months after exiting a mental hospital with two feet still in the closet.

My Week in South Oaks Mental Hospital

How I learned no one was going to save or fix me, I had to do it myself.

A Freelance Production in Soho [NSFW]

How I learned that Sex Work should be left to the professionals