title: Why Straight Guys Love Their Gay Guys: Reviving the Roots of Male Sexuality
author:  David Dalton 
description: David Dalton has worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has now retreated to a small farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he also is involved in environmental activism and local politics. Dalton's forthcoming memoir will involve 40 years of gay history, for which he had a front-row seat and lived a life that brought him into intimate contact with some of the most important gay writers and thinkers of the last 40 years.
zlib_text: **ZEPH’S AWAKENING**
  
  by Serena Yates
  
  “I don’t think I can make it.” Zeph’s heart beat a mile a minute as he stood
  with his back to the locker. Eric and Austin had him boxed in, their broad,
  hulking bodies not letting much light through, never mind giving him enough
  space to escape. They were pushing much too close to him for comfort, and all
  he wanted to do was run as fast and as far as possible.
  
  “Come on, it’ll be fun.” Eric leered at him. “There’ll be beer, and
  cigarettes, and girls…”
  
  Like he was interested in any of those. Why were they suddenly bothering him?
  
  He’d thought they didn’t even know he existed for all the attention he’d
  received so far. Not liking alcohol or smoking was bad, and he couldn’t very
  well say he didn’t like girls. Not that way, at least. Knowing how homophobic
  the two jocks were, he was better off dead before admitting he was gay.
  
  “Yeah, even you’ll probably be able to get laid. Some of them will do anything
  when you get them drunk enough.” Austin elbow