The Code Of Law

Peki was late this Wednesday morning. "Sorry, I slept through. I was in the park until four o'clock in the morning." - "Well, I hope it was worth it." I forgave with a grin. - "Yeah, but not so much on having sex. I've had a long conversation with a youngster." he answered while he teared open the paperbag with the rolls and let out the crumbs all over the table and the carpet - as usual. I was silently glad to know, that the cleaning woman was arranged for the next day and poured out the coffee. - "The police and the guys of that gay group have been there with their information desk. We've been laughing about the gay hunks beating it quickly. He said 'There once was this law. I can't remember which number that was.'" - "Tell me, how old was this boy you met?" I asked inbetween. - "I think he was in the middle of his twenties." Peki answered.

I sighed thoughful "Have I never told you, that I was in a prison cell on account of this law?" Peki swallowed "No, but make up for that right now."

"It's quite some time ago. I was sixteen and my lover of that time was twenty-four. One of his ex-guys was so jealous to denounce him to the police. And so he was observed. One day when we met and said hello, four plain-clothes policeman surrounded us. As my friend was without a job at that time and not registered at his appartment, he had to go to prison for half a year until he was put on trial." Peki was shocked: "That's horrible!" - "It was hell." I continued "You know, the horror with my parents just began. They took me to a psyciatrist. That was an old nazi-type of guy who was going to hypnotize me to get to know how glad I could be with a woman."

"And nowadays a young man in the middle of his twenties comes my way, and doesn't even know the number of this code of law. Quiet strange how fast the world is changing." Peki ruminated. "Do you think, things are really changing so fast?" I asked him. "We shouldn't forget, that the most part of todays living gays in this country had their coming out when this law was still effective. It was just abolished two or three years ago in it's total form." Peki said "I think it's much more relating to today's single-society; that gays are accepted so far. So, we are well suited to that. Anyway, it's quite suspect to me, how we are flattered by TV talk-shows as the nice guys. That might change one day. - What a about some more coffee? I'd like to have another pot." - "Of course, my dear!" I got up to go to the kitchen, when I just remembered that Peki was only talking about that code of law. Was he still knowing the number of that paragraph?

"One-hundred-and-seventy-five!" Peki said "May be, I am a typical contemporary entertaining gay man, but so far I remember gay history well ..."