Visiting the phillygaypride site, http://www.phillygaypride.org/annual-reminders-50th-anniversary/ , and looking at some of the pictures from 1965 really made me think about how brave so many were to make a step like this. How apt that it happened in the City of Brotherly Love, the home of the Liberty Bell, and the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
This weekend the festivities also included celebrating marriage equality, another great accomplishment in LGBT history. Read more: http://lgbt50.org/
I wrote an erotic short story, Philadelphia Love, a Club Evolve Brief, and it is FREE in celebration of marriage equality and it can ONLY be found at All Romance Ebooks - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-philadelphialove-1844264-149.html
Philadelphia Love
We
are rarely proud when we are alone.--Voltaire
**An
Interracial Male/Male Brief **
Funny how things happen in one’s life. The
Supreme Court’s ruling had changed the gay landscape—two weeks after Elliot
left.
Oh, well.
There was a bright spot on Cooper Lawson’s
horizon. Last Friday he had received a phone call from a good friend who also
happened to be his employer. Pierce James had moved to Los Angeles a few months
ago but he was arriving in town today for the LGBT festivities and the
celebration for marriage equality taking place in Philadelphia this weekend. He
would be staying with Cooper and he’d promised to help if he could with the
situation he’d found himself in with Elliot. Although Elliot never trusted
Pierce, believing he had his sights set on Cooper, his friend promised to be on
his best behavior if and when Elliot showed up to get his belongings.
Cooper eyed the lonely box taped closed and
sitting in the corner. It contained a couple pairs of shoes, some photos, and a
few other miscellaneous items. In the bedroom hung a clothing bag holding a
robe, a couple shirts, and two suits, one of which was Elliot’s favorite. Cooper
had gathered everything, and then called Elliot to let him know he could stop
by any time this weekend to retrieve the rest of his things.
Pierce had called saying they were caught
in traffic not far away and Cooper eagerly awaited his arrival and looked
forward to meeting his new boyfriend. When the buzzer finally sounded, Cooper
sprang to snatch the door open. “Pier… Elliot, what are you doing here?”
“Nice to see you too, Coop.”
“I didn’t think you’d show up until
tomorrow.”
“You said anytime this weekend and I’m sure
you remember I’m going out of town tomorrow night.”
“Yes, yes, right.”
Is there a problem?”
Cooper closed the door but remained rooted
where he stood. “I’m expecting company.”
Long, athletic legs carried Elliot across
the room where he sat on the arm of the sofa. Seeing him there ripped a hole in
Cooper’s heart. His shoulder length dark hair was loose today, not in the
ponytail Elliot preferred wearing. He was the only man in the world whose five
o’clock shadow was damn near thick enough to call a beard. Christ, he reminded
Cooper of one of those swashbucklers pictured on the front of romance novels.
The kind of man everyone swooned over—male and female alike. Oh, those beautiful
blue eyes and kissable lips.
Cooper loved the impatient bastard.
Elliot wanted to marry him, but Cooper was
afraid to tie the knot and complicate things. Not only was there the issue of
Elliot’s mother accepting her gorgeous white boy with a black man, what if one
or the other had to move to one of those dreadful states that would cause grief
if their union couldn’t be recognized.
“Anybody I know?”
BZZZZ.
Shit!
Shit! Cooper’s
hand still held the knob. “Well…”
“Are you going to open the door, Coop?”
What
the hell.
He yanked the door open and Pierce bounded in.
He hugged Cooper spinning him around.
“You’re still the prettiest fucker I know.”
“Pierce, you look happy as hell.”
“I am.” He released Cooper, and scowled at
Elliot. “Thought you moved out.”
Growl and roar-it's okay to let the beast out.-jhalisteele
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