THE GLASS CLOSET

I'm gay.

Now you'd think something as simple as two words, would explain, identify and satisfy any question on the difference of sexual orientation, wouldn't you? Ah, well...At 14 I found out to my cost that such a simple proclamation can land one in some pretty nasty bastard-infested waters, I'll tell you that for nothing.

This isn't going to be one of those 'lecturey' blogs, where I instruct you and make you feel guilty about not understanding/not caring/being weird around the whole GAY thing... this is more a treatise on the current phenomena of what 'GAY' means to the mainstream, and obviously where I set amongst it all; it's many-varied and multi-layered and bit wibbly and silly in places, but I will try to condense into something quite simple and interesting!

The thing is, I was lucky to originally 'come out' with little understanding of sex/sexuality or connotations, identity and all those other peculiar things. I was 14, I knew I didn't have that much of an interest in girls, and that I found guys attractive, and lovely, but I was pubescent, I didn't have that much of an inclination of sex really... I can't fathom any reason why I said this fact about myself to all and sundry, there was no gain, except to be honest, although the losses were rather terrific.

You see, I had the rather fortunate circumstance, that I went to an All-Boys School, in a rather less than reputable area of South-East London; a heavy, rough and uncomprimising place, that didn't take too kindly to fay, unco-ordinated, philosophising types... and the school population after asking a long loooooooooooong stream of questions decided that I, who would not defend or argue, simply explain, as I was all calm and dream-like floating through school-life, took umbridge to this and began a systematic yet random course of attacking me in various undignified ways; from aerosol-can spray in the face, to stone throwing, spitting, punching, kicking, strange sexual advances... it was a rather difficult seven months of this, to which I never really responded... I didn't know how, or thought to...

I decided to leave this establishment and they found me a new one. Now at 15, rather war-wounded and introspective about this whole life business... further questioning of my sexuality resulted in me not willing to answer, thus a whole stigma and fear arose whenever sexuality was mentioned, in particular gayness, and I sort of developed an internalised homophobia.

When I got a bit older, and heard that there were 'LGBT youth groups' I popped along to them - but (and please, this is no sob story, just 'what happened') a lot of the other young guys and gals, were more interested in copping off with one another, and they were on this thing called 'the scene' which I didn't understand.

This scene refers to a ghettoised area of soho in which the opening gay outnumbers the arrogant heterosexual, thereby the gay population assume a strange parody of heterosexual life by being comfortable in an outside urban setting... thus making it as isolating, unkind and unwelcoming as the rest of society...

So with my self-loathing and their over-compensating self-loving.... I was a lost cause... and it wasn't until I got into a dodgy domesticated long-term relationship and went to college, that I sort of weirdly labelled myself as BISEXUAL.... something which I had to defend internally... how embarrassing I find it now... but just one note, I have had relationships with women - and I have loved women - I do love women and could fall in love with women - it's about love with me not sex so much - and so yes, Bi - ness is probably a more correct term, but I shall outline why I identify as GAY.

The reason is very simple; it is still a homophobic society, that doesn't allow for tolerance, let alone acceptance of alternative sexualities; we do not teach it to our children from a young age, as they do in other European countries, we don't have Gay Marraige, there is still acceptable prevelant anti-gay humour and a proliferation of gay-backlash in the press and tv... people are always interested in people sexuality because people think these 'closetted' people are ashamed and we like to out and shame, it's the modern witchhunt... so until it's such an ordinary fixture of life FOR THE MASSES (I know a lot of you who read this blog will have already, or have been brought up to see there is very little distinction between gays and straights, imperceptable) that gay men and women should show it - loudly....

I, through trauma, have not been able to be as open as I'd like, and I try my best, I'd never deny even in dangerous circumstances, but I, due to complete accident, I think people correlate my behaivour as 'gay' anyway, and this I do not mind, but I worry people think I mind, and want to keep it secret, or something... now this is THE GLASS CLOSET, (I keep nearly writing COFFIN) that I refer too... it is a term that denotes someone who is openly gay yet never refers to it in public and often asks for it not to be mentioned if giving interviews and so on; prime examples of this are Simon Amstell, Jodie Foster, One of Take That (I cant remember which one) so on and so on, ad infinitum.... people seem to herald these as bastians of LGBT-rights, because they 'don't make a fuss about it' and that they 'appear almost straight' how UTTERLY SICKENING, is that! - it sounds very conformist and middle-class; the only way we accept is through assimilation - no, no, no, no!

People, who through their personality are camp or outrageous, I think of Louis Spence here, are derided as setting the gay-rights movement backwards, and modern gay men go 'ya! boo! for shame!' - how dare they, that's very unkind, untrue and all the rest of it, he is just him - he may be annoying for other reasons but it's nothing to do wit hthe fact that he is gay and flamboyant... the real shaming types are the ones that just 'never refer to it' and try their best to not appear at all like a stereotype of which we are so villified and bullied for...!

Well I shant take part in this horrible display of utter conformity, I don't mind if I am mocked or if people secretly sneer, I am well-prepared now for all that....

I genuinely beleive Modern Gay-Rights Activism is as simple as going to societ 'No You're Wrong! We're Equal and seeing as we've demoralised so; we have to waste all this energy of our life in telling you the reasons OVER AND OVER AND OVER"

The Day I Relieved Amanda Holden Of Her Face: An unbiased Meditation on Britain's Got Talent

In which two young rebels (or 'hooligans' as they are known as in D. Cameronland Inc.) Two translucent, immaciated and lanky figures known as Aldous and Barclay, or A and B for short, part of the Scheduling Terrorists Insurgent's, or S.T.I's, freedom fighters determined to liberate television in the not so distant future.







It is predicted that by 2020, Britain's Got Talent will account for 93% of television, with contestants rigged up to feeding tubes and chained to stages, filmed for up 22hours a day, whilst being branded with 'X's if they deem to fall below a desired audience appreciation level.







Many International Human Rights funds and protests have resulted in little more than sanctions.







It is interesting to note that The Government's bombing of Syria occured at the same time as the BGT 2013 Semi-Final... coincidence?




Screams were being heard from the dressing room. Jem, the shows new runner, pulled at her plastic necklace from Claire's Accessories with due anxiety. "What the frube was that??" She shrieked. "Oh that's just Holden having her stitches removed" Cowell said as he waddled past. His voice was ominously trembling since the Post-oesophageal Cancer he suffered in 2015, now using a voice-box aid, he sounded a lot like a retrograde robot, which certain Anti-Cameronland Inc. News-ports have commented on, quoting "that its high frequency pitch has caused ugly middle-aged women/children to immediately flush their bowels without warning".
Mr Herring-Bone Syrup was by the door smoking a salmon, bathed in sillohette and the overwhelming smell of fish. The long-time director of BGT since 2011, whose face has never been seen, stood, 8 foot tall. Some say he's an alien, others say he was a former property developer from Leatherhead, no-one quite knows. "Don't tell Martha about the electrodes, Barry" He screamed softly, then fell away. This was BGT-Soc codeword for guard The Holden. There had been so much extra security from lower-middle-class students, since the assassination of Piers Morgan three years ago; when unexpectadly the giant glass 'X' that suspended above him for all those many moons, the one he had so many a time lit up to admonish the performers who dutifully totted out for his paternal approval..., the double-glazed letter was shattered into a million razor-sharp shards that fell with speed, raining down onto Sir Piers, splitting his very atoms, miraculously, the practical skinning and disembowling didn't kill Mr Morgan, and he died eighteen months later, every moment spent in unbeleivable agony screaming in the private ward of St. Barts. They say if you stay at The Sir Piers Morgan Memorial Ward For Anal Warts you can still hear his ghost, puckering his lips.

'But what was Holden doing?' the re-elastication of her face didn't usually take that long (they had started using elephant scrotum skin-grafts, and it really gave the non-shimmer 'realism-face' look that was so popular.) The ominous squealching put Jem on edge. She fiddled with her Primark chunky bracelet for a moment, then, knocked on the door. "Mrs Holden-Prince Harry, is everything alright?", her heart was in her mouth, (metaphorically not literally), it was very against protocol to knock on the door of any one of the Holy Trinity. "Yes," came an obviously male voice with a silly 'I am doing a Woman's voice' warblyness emanated through the door. "Oh, is everything alright?" Jem asked playing along, her overplucked eyebrows arched up with very self-aware and bad 'oh I am playing along' acting. "Oh quite alright, dear just signing some pictures of me from that show I was in before I did this one, the name of which escapes me".

Jem burst through the door, ray-gun brandished. "No-one forgets Amanda Louise Holden's awe inspiring performance in Cutting It!" She shouted, but her jaw hit the floor, when she saw, the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award nomitated actress's face in a see-through freezer-bag. Her caved in skull along with the rest of her body, laid limply, with little sign of a struggle in her favourite chair, the corpse was dressed in a really nice little dress that looked fab!

The freezer-bag containing her face was held by a lanky pale boy, who must of been at least 11foot tall, he looked like a horse in human form and smelt like one too, wearing a gold-belt and four t-shirts; A stood heroically with his prize. His accomplice B stood shaking, holding the Ice-scraper and bloodied pizza-cutter in his hands, shaking, his eyes had seen the face of Jesus ripped from its very house.

"And just what the flippity jibber is going on in here?" Jem said with her hands on her hips, with all the authority and command of Ms Hooley from Balamory.

"Eeek, we've been discovered" Squeaked A,

"Quite" replied B.

"So, can someone explain, what have you boys been up to? Naughty, naughty boys"

I don't think Aldous and Barclay were particularly impressed by Jem's intonations because they shot her in the head sixteen times and exuented with the face.

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"Good God and Stomach Acid!" Farted Mr Herring-Bone Syrup, when he saw the mess in Ms Holden's dressing room... he was distraught and even shed a tear (or two) out of one of his face eyes. He quickly regained his composure and belted out a rather tuneful but misguided reggae version of 'The Show Must Go On' before proceeding to commit to the idea of the notion of the fact that the show must go on.

"I need to replace her, but with what".

"What are you talking about?" A said from off-screen, so when Mr Herring-Bone syrup turns to look at what you, the audience can't see, you're already thinking "Whaaaa..." hehehe.... *cough* sorry....

Quite a sight assailed his eyes in fact, a 22foot high figure in a very long beige coat, it was in fact Aldous and Barclay, disguised in a long biege coat, with Amanda Holden's face precariously perched over his own face, selotaped on in fact. The silly 'woman's' voice had returned that cut no dry-ice with the late Jem.

"Oh there you are Amanda, quickly, I have no time to question the fact your faceless corpse is in the dressing room, or the fact you've grown another 16 foot, the show is about to begin, take to your special seat Pookie-whoreness" And with that sign-off Mr Herring-Bone Syrup flew out of the window with rocket-like speed.

Wierd Britain's Got Talent Theme Music remixed by Mark Ronson Featuring Vocals from Eamonn Holmes.

When Queen Elizabeth II went the way of her father with the lung cancer, in 2015, the nation went entirely numb, and it was allowed to broadcast all future shows of BGT live from Buckingham Palace, (and all future broadcasts of The Xtra (but not X) Factor from Balmoral, something that is trying to be dissolved by The Scottish Parliament).

AND NOW FOR THE BIG FINALE BIT:

So, it's been written into the annals of history, carved on the very bosom of Brittania with a rusty little carving-tool; you had 9/11 and 7/7, and 5/15, 1/1 1/2 6/13 etc., well added to ALL OF THAT, you now have The atrocity on BGT...

It all started off, Cowell was given his liquid morphine and was rather subdued, cooing to himself quietly, stroking his little beak. The Sock-Puppet portrayed by Dame Helena Bonham-Carter in the memory of Sir Piers Morgan was warming up the 40'000 strong audience all shipped in from Belmarsh and The Home Counties; the Amanda Doppleganger was in, unnoticed in the very thickness of it.

Gummed to A and B's liver, was enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the side of Stephanie Meyer, pretty strong stuff to penetrate that bough.

Famously, although it has since been misreported, that the bomb went off during the singing chicken's from Bognor Regis, but actually after The Cole Enquiry six years later, it was revealed that the bomb was detonated by remote control, during The Self Flagulating St. Winnifred's schoolchildren's tribute to Slipknot.

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Luckily, due to the idea that Aldous and B will be used again in some Misadventure possibly crucifying Jeremy Kyle, that they somehow escaped from this explosion, how, why and with whose help, therin lies the mystery.


[A little first draft of something silly]