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DDG His<strong>to</strong>ry - <strong>Gay</strong> edition<br />
Will, Adrian and Roger visit the Trail Of 100<br />
Giants<br />
Do you remember the last time you played<br />
baseball? The feel of the hot summer air<br />
<strong>in</strong> your face, the sound of a bat strik<strong>in</strong>g<br />
a ball for the long one? <strong>This</strong> one is gone,<br />
home run! Runn<strong>in</strong>g the worn dusty basel<strong>in</strong>e,<br />
the smell of fresh cut grass, and the<br />
sound of your buddies slowly disappear<strong>in</strong>g<br />
from your m<strong>in</strong>d. To be sure your fad<strong>in</strong>g<br />
memory may be of some other childhood<br />
event. But the feel<strong>in</strong>g is the same, if only<br />
you knew it was the last time. I don’t even<br />
remember the last day boys call<strong>in</strong>g strikes<br />
or balls ended for me. And I was sure I<br />
was th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g I will be there <strong>to</strong>morrow, but<br />
one day that <strong>to</strong>morrow would never come<br />
aga<strong>in</strong>. No more silly jokes and giggles and<br />
if your were a certa<strong>in</strong> boy, furtive looks<br />
th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g about the sleepover planned for<br />
that night. The life of a gay boy is not that<br />
much different <strong>to</strong> anyone when it comes <strong>to</strong><br />
memories.<br />
<strong>This</strong> year our anniversary comes on a<br />
sad note. As we lost our founder Mike<br />
Luke and we will br<strong>in</strong>g more <strong>in</strong> future<br />
issues and plans for our 25th anniversary.<br />
Because he is gone, that <strong>to</strong>morrow<br />
will also never come aga<strong>in</strong>. Two years or<br />
so ago we had a car <strong>in</strong> the Pride parade<br />
and I asked Mike <strong>to</strong> ride with us. It surely<br />
seemed bitter sweet <strong>to</strong> me and at the end<br />
he asked <strong>to</strong> let him sit for a bit. “Sure, but<br />
Why?”, I asked. He said he wanted <strong>to</strong> let<br />
the voices of the people fade. It was the<br />
best part of the festival <strong>to</strong> him, mean<strong>in</strong>g<br />
after all the work and effort was done<br />
it was time <strong>to</strong> gather memories and <strong>to</strong><br />
remember we helped make these happy<br />
voices. We did that. Each year at Pride I<br />
<strong>in</strong>vite anyone <strong>to</strong> sit at our booth and watch<br />
how happy pride makes people <strong>in</strong> the<br />
moment. It is awe <strong>in</strong>spir<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
The paths we that take make us who we<br />
are.<br />
Mike started the DDG as a dat<strong>in</strong>g service<br />
before 1994, as a typical phone dat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
system of the day. You simply called a<br />
number and people<br />
Cont<strong>in</strong>ued on page 29<br />
6 The orig<strong>in</strong>al <strong>Gay</strong> Desert Daily Guide. View our Free Digital Version on-l<strong>in</strong>e.
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