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Kd5000:
the bad times..."   :'(

I'm paraphrasing but I saw RUNNING WITH SCISSORS today, a movie about a gay teen in a very mixed up social environment.  He confides to the mother of the family that adapted him, i.e.  everybody has dreams, you need to have them to get thru the bad moments.  It led to me to thinking about BBM and how Jack's life, particularly his adolescene must have been so difficult, that he learned to be a dreamer, to get thru the hard times.  It was his way of detaching from the bleak situation, from an unloving father, an unadverturesome childhood which he tries to compensate for by getting into rodeoing which will be his ticket to "stardom."

By the way, in RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, Joseph Cross did a great job playing the most normalesque character as the gay teen and Annette Benning brilliantly played his bipolar Anne Sexton wantabee biological mother. Like BBM it takes place in the 1970's, very good soundtrack, but the setting is Western Massachusetts, not Wyoming.  And unlike Jack, Joseph Cross's character is a gay teen in the late 1970's, not the early 1960's.

Artiste:
Interesting!

In many ways!!

We do dream, which is great!!

Hugs!!

Artiste:
Right!!

Hugs!!

Daniel:
Glad to see how you discovered that. It's an interesting perspective on life that can continue to allow us to cope and drive us through our most difficult times. This is something that has been prevalent among many homosexual men, the spiritual or psychological focus on an almost alternate reality. It provides a depth of dream and fantasy that reflects the outer world, and which can be tied to paper via pen and ink; rearranged and harmonized with a variety of realistic understandings.

I think that may in part be where the term "Gay" originates: from this psychological or spiritual focus on an alternate, dreamy world. There are a number of films which seem to focus on this part of male homosexuality, not to mention books, poetry, and a large part of the art world of the aesthetic. Performance itself can be an escape from the conflicts of reality.

Artiste:
Is it more difficult with such a dream? Better without it in the gay world??

Or is it same in the straight world??

I find more men difficult with the world and humanity... and wonder if you do too??

Hugs!!

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