A kiss is not just a kiss
by Ethan Jacobs
Bay Windows
Sunday May 25, 2008
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=features&sc3=&id=74883Last October Ed Ford, a 64-year-old Bostonian and president of the Boston Prime Timers, stood up before a crowd at the Boston Center for the Arts on National Coming Out Day and read them a story that he had never publicly shared with anyone else. The subject of the story was a kiss.
But it wasn't just any old peck on the cheek. Ford shared the story of the first kiss he received from a man after he had finally acknowledged to himself that he is gay. He told the crowd about joining Dignity Boston, the LGBT Catholic group, in 1980 at age 37, shortly after his divorce, as a way to expand his gay social circle and maybe find a boyfriend. He began flirting with a man named Pete, finding excuses each week to walk him home. One day Pete invited him up to his apartment to use the bathroom. Just as Ford was about to leave Pete leaned in and kissed him. A marathon session of kissing followed, and Ford told the audience it took two weeks before his chapped red lips finally healed.
