If you say EAT, you get six scoops "for starters."
We're at a barbecue at Derek's house near Sunset Boulevard. About 10 of us, including Fred, Matt, Raul, Marcus, and Will the Bondage Boy, are swapping our best stories about disastrous dates, gigantic penises, or hookups with celebrities. Now it's time for dessert, and Alan's turn:
"I'm going to tell you about the time I was arrested."
This should be good. Alan does everything BIG. A Pentecostal theology student turned porn star turned English teacher, he is exuberant, effervescent, full of crazy schemes. He says whatever pops into his head, does whatever he wants without considering the consequences. It's not hard to imagine a lot of circumstances where he would draw the wrath of the heterosexual police state.
"I'm going to tell you about the time I was arrested."
This should be good. Alan does everything BIG. A Pentecostal theology student turned porn star turned English teacher, he is exuberant, effervescent, full of crazy schemes. He says whatever pops into his head, does whatever he wants without considering the consequences. It's not hard to imagine a lot of circumstances where he would draw the wrath of the heterosexual police state.
"Better yet, I'll tell you about three incidents, and you have to decide which resulted in my arrest. They all happened in the early 1980s, before any of you met me."
"What do we win if we get the right answer?" Raul asks.
"Twenty minutes alone in the bedroom with me. Anything you want: make out, give me a blow job, discuss Dynasty...."
We glance at each other and grin. Alan is very big beneath the belt.
#1: The Vice Cop
Alan didn't approve of public cruising -- not because of any immorality in anonymous contacts, because it was dangerous. Undercover cops were everywhere, waiting to haul in "perverts" on "lewd conduct" charges, even if they did nothing but talk.
One day Alan and his friends had a picnic in Griffith Park, and he decided to go on a hike. A cute guy cruised him. In his twenties, with blond curly hair and a smooth chest -- well, who wouldn't follow him into the woods? Besides, there was no way a vice cop would be prowling this far from a gay neighborhood!
They found a secluded spot. The cute guy unzipped Alan's pants and pulled it out. He fondled Alan's aroused penis for a few minutes.
Then he flashed a badge. "LAPD Vice!"
I go into the kitchen and bring Alan another soda. Obviously the contest is over -- this must be the one.
#2: The Gay Basher
In the early 1980s, before people knew about AIDS, "tricking" was commonplace -- you went out to the bars, met someone, and brought him home that night, without waiting for a date or introducing him to your friends or anything.
One night at the Gold Coast Alan met a truck driver -- in his 30s, very tall and muscular, with a beard and a hairy chest. Alan usually preferred soft and smooth -- but what a bulge!
The guy said "I want take you home and pound you!" Alan was not usually into anal sex, but he figured, with someone that hot, he would make an exception.
They went back to Alan's apartment. When they walked in the door, Alan drew him in for a kiss. The truck driver called him a "f*king faggot", and punched him in the face.
Alan sprang back in shock, and the guy was on top of him, punching and kicking and yelling "f*king faggot."
"More ice cream?" Alan asks. "I brought lots."
#3: Staying After Class
Every high school teacher and college professor knows that male students often get aroused in the classroom. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice. But Alan doesn't pretend.
He was so cute! 18 years old, tall, slim, Hispanic, a little feminine, with thick black hair -- and what a bulge! He had a Mortadella, easily. And he was tenting outrageously right in the middle of the lecture.
Alan leaned down and whispered in his ear, "Do you want to go to the bathroom and take care of that?"
The boy blushed and shook his head. But after school he came back to "talk about his grade." His bulge returned. So did Alan's.
The school was empty except for some kids doing after-school activities and the the janitor making his rounds. So Alan unzipped his pants, and the boy knelt and went down on him. Right at his desk!
"Ding, ding!" Alan exclaims. "Write your answer on a slip of paper, and I'll tally the results."
Most guys guess The Vice Cop. I mean, come on, the guy flashed his badge!
"No," Alan says. "He let me off with a warning -- after he went down on me. He was on a power trip -- he got off on intimidating guys into sex."
Some guess Staying After Class. Sex with one of your students, right in the classroom! Who cared that he was of legal age -- the police would have a field day!
"No," Alan says, "We hooked up after class several times. We're still in contact -- he went to UC Santa Cruz, majored in philosophy."
Only Will the Bondage Boy, who has never met Alan before, guesses The Gay Basher. "You look like you can take care of yourself," he says. "I bet the basher ended up in the hospital, and that didn't sit well with the straights."
"Precisely!" Alan exclaims. "He got a broken nose and three broken ribs. My crazy roommate called the police, and of course they arrested me for 'enticing' a poor innocent straight boy."
So Will and Alan go into the bedroom for 20 minutes. They don't tell us what happened there. Probably something like this.
See also: Sharing the Kept Boy with Alan; and the Bear with the Sweeney Todd Fetish.
Yeah, most would assume the vice cop. That's what they do, right?
ReplyDeleteThis made me think of how in middle school, we thought a "trick" was a prostitute and not the act of prostitution. For some reason, "pimp" could be an insult ("He's nothing but a pimp."), a compliment ("Six girls' numbers at one party. You're the pimp." And I should mention few high school guys were serious with other guys back in the 90s. You might have a friendship which includes sexual acts, never to be discussed with anyone else, but that's all you did, and it rarely involved penetration.), or a pejorative adjective basically nouveau riche ("Ruby earrings say elegant. Red diamond earrings say pimp. Red beryl earrings say take my money, please.")
Wow -I would have gotten 20 minutes with Alan!
ReplyDeleteWe dated briefly, so I've been there.
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