Thanks very, very much Br. Patrick!!
Wow, wow!! I am still nearly out of air... reading this, and am very happy to get it since you tell your true story!!
Pray you are well, as you must still be affected by this!! Right??
Your comment:
Yes and I too was in a situation where my life was in danger because I was gay. It was in the 'gay section' of Old-Town in Chicago in the '70s; 2 men were robbing a gay couple and I came upon the scene when I walked around a corner. A gun was pointed at me and I was told to "freeze"!! Scared to death! But within moments, 3 or 4 undercover cops were all over the robbers. I was never so glad to see a cop in my life!
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There are many similar situations which are true, even my own as I had to save my life from 4 all at once!!
So I understand your story!!
And here is another one, if I may say:
I am a gay man, and I have lived in many places in the USA, and in Canada too!! Writing for months (or years) with a penpal (another gay man), I was invited to go visit him and live with him, for a while, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! In his many letters, I think he had told me before my first visit, of his sad story! He had been in a gay bar in Vancouver which is on a main great street; that bar was known. He had been there many times, I think... as it was a SAFE place for gays... and it was!!
However, one day instead of going out by using the front door, he used the back door as most did, in order to get out!! Once outside, two nearly killed him knocking him from behind, disfigured him so much that none of his face was left nearly; $50 or even $20 or less the burglars/killers took from his pockets!!
When I first saw him, I was told by him that he had facial surgery. But he said very often how displaced he was with his face!! He was sad because his face was NOT at all his own anymore!!
Sad indeed!! In many ways!! Being a gay man is difficult for him, and for maybe all of us gays too!! ??
Praying for him.. and for you!! And others, gays and straights. To-day's society with drugs and unwanted anti-social persons trying to kill and rob gays as well as others, is nerve-racking for me... such episodes becoming too common!! Guess you saw that with your life then and think you were lucky not being disfigured by such robbers/killers!! Glad you relate your true story!!
Be happy to read your news, and thanks...
hugs!