When I was a teenager
back in the sixties,
I knew a kid who liked
to thumb rides and get
picked up by a gay guy
to beat the shit out of
him.

It made no sense to me.

Why intentionally go out
of your way to harm
people with different
sexual orientations?

Now I think he had gay
tendencies he was
uncomfortable with and

beat up gays to try to
beat the gayness out
of himself.

I only saw him once,
and I wonder if he
tried to beat up the

wrong gay and got
killed or put in prison.

Bob Boyd