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Did the shelf life of our love have expired?

Pair: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard. Evan Buckley & Eddie Diaz

Rating: Teen and Up

Word count: 4 458 words

Evan was late for their date. Tommy already knew that he would be late, Evan had called him. But Tommy also knew that something was wrong. Choosing to leave the restaurant, Tommy ran to his boyfriend's loft.

"What's going on?"

"Eddie loves me. He's in love with me."

Part 2 of the Neverland Anthology

I don’t want to be like “it’s homophobia” but genuinely people do not seem to see Gay Men as People who have unique experiences and personalities shaped by their gayness AND their masculinity.

Tommy is closed off and defensive in that scene because Gerrard basically called him a fairy to his face and now he’s being ambushed with a serious conversation. This is a natural way to react when you’re a gay man because (and I shouldn’t have to explain this) when you’re a gay man and a homophobe is near you, you get uncomfortable and have to retreat into a shell that will keep you safe. This is the reason so many gay men are “sassy” because having an acerbic tongue is often the only defense mechanism for a visibly feminine man. For more masculine men like Tommy, that defensive shell is going to look a lot like retreating hard into masculinity. So a gay man clamming up and getting snippy when faced with homophobia is pretty damn understandable.

Source: I’m a gay man and my main defense mechanisms are silencing myself or using dry humor to deflect.