Dalhart Texas Summer 1966 by Mookie
For my 18th birthday my bitch mother was going to have me committed to a lockup nuthouse. Back in the day, homosexuality was classified as a mental illness (typically treated with electroshock), homosexual acts between consenting adults were criminalized, and being outed at the tail end of the McCarthy era (as my supposedly best friend did to me in high school) got you branded by some as traitor to your country. So I visited my grandma who gave me $10, stuck my thumb out at the entrance to the...