![]() ![]() They were living in a world that permitted them acts of excess that proved their manhood, much like in any patriarchal society. Tenoch and Julio weren’t Filipinos but they were brown boys at the height of their sexual awakening - and they certainly weren’t facing any adversities that made it hard for them to claim their sexuality. Seeing men lock eyes and connect before sharing a kiss is a storm of emotions, something that lead me into a realization that I, a renewed gay boy, finally want this love that they speak of, not only because every one seems to have it - especially during puberty - but because I want to experience it, to be consumed by it. ![]() When I say “shared a kiss” I meant with deep seated passion, not merely a kiss of flaring, heightened emotions because that could be found in any gay porn, which I have watched (and there are some good kisses in there), secretly, in the pre-incognito browser era internet cafes. It might have been a sleazy digital gay movie of the early 2000s, the kind of movie that you skip to the “best” parts, but it also must have been “Y Tu Mamá También,” a film so radical in its approach of the concept of coming of age that it annihilated me completely. or movies during the ‘90s (perhaps, to some extent, until now). There are not many scenes to draw from, with homosexuality being a taboo subject to be depicted on T.V. The haze in my memory prevents me from recalling when I first watched two boys sharing a kiss.
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