SUNNIEDEELITE
COMES OFAGE

It was June, 1978 and Sunnie Deelite had just graduated from Mrs. Scheissbook’s School for Fascist Piggies, in the Northeastern Zone of Amourrica Profunda. After the commencement ceremony, he peeled out of the school’s circular, pebble-covered driveway in a rusted-out Volkswagen van and embarked on a cross-country drive to Palm Things in the Western Desert Region. He knew that he was attracted to men; he was gay, queer, a queen, a nelly, a pansy, a screamer and dying to get out of the closet. He didn’t know yet whether he was a top or a bottom. Of course, he knew it was wrong to use those types of pejorative monikers to describe homosexual males. But both his politically incorrect sense of fantasy and his penchant for the taboo inspired this transgression. Sunnie had faggots on the brain, and not the white picket fence kind either. He was afraid yet fascinated by what little he knew and he was ready for adventure ….. In the late 1970’s, terms such ashomonormative andheteronormative were not widely used by the LGBTQ population. Gay neighborhoods were still integrated into the red-light districts of cities worldwide; back in the day, gay men were considered to be sexual outlaws who lived their lives travelling between their various urban ghettos and underworlds ….. It was June, 1978 and after arriving in Palm Things, Sunnie somehow worked up the nerve to go to one of the local pickup bars where two gay leathermen, both of them being chicken hawks, espied Sunnie the twinkie and reveled in his youthful androgyny. In both their approach and attitude, they resembled a couple of fawning, Shakespearian court jesters. Yet surprisingly, for two men who professed to live their lives as pigs, they maintained a respectful distance with Sunnie. They ascertained that he was inexperienced and would most likely be hesitant to engage in spontaneous, erotic adventures. They realized that he was not naturally precocious and that he would have to be drawn out of his shell. They went by the names of Toby and Mordred and were both older than Sunnie by about ten years. They perused him for a few minutes before introducing themselves. They then started to advisehim:

Toby: We’ll teach you about the real world by putting you through a trial by fire. What did you learn in Mrs. Scheissbook’s School for Fascist Piggies, anyways? (batt