Re: Tommy/TJ
"All that means is both our fathers have fucked us up, or we've let them," TJ replied seriously. "Your father isn't here, Tommy. You have the same chance I took when we left these people before: to live for yourself and not for him."
Rolling his eyes, TJ laughed. "You don't think I looked up medical studies for entertainment, do you?" As he'd gotten older and it became more of a talking point, TJ had lost count of the number of aids feeding him quotes and numbers as if any of it meant anything concrete. The tone always changed subtly for the audience, even if the same numbers were used.
"By that argument, if you fuck a woman, you're straight. I've fucked women. Would you seriously call me straight?" He snorted and shook his head. "I might sound like her, but it's people like her that used the term. I'm just quoting them. You should have seen some of the letters I got back then, the things that come up on a google search for my name are equally as entertaining. But, that's beside the point. I didn't say you would date the available women -- and so not thinking of you and Nana, no." TJ shuddered. "I said sex and getting laid, neither of which requires dating. Dating is a very different thing."
And clearly Tommy wasn't just thinking about sex and physical attraction to other men, not the way he was talking about Queen. "Honestly? Because the two of you were so close at home, maybe it's possible. You're all either one has; you're close friends, which we both know is rare in the circles we travel. It very well might be that you're...clinging to the familiar. Or, it could be that, outside of that world you're finally allowing yourself to feel something you've felt all along.
"I don't think being here has made any of these men gay. For those I have knowledge of, they had desires that way before coming here. At most the things holding them back from acting on it have been removed."