- Teardrops on My Drum
"Teardrops on My Drum" is an autobiographical
novel of Jack Robinson’s boyhood inLiverpool in the1930 s (ISBN 0-85449-261-5,Gay Men's Press , 1998). It is a story of thesexual adventures of a younggay boy growing up in poverty and with parental neglect."Teardrops on my Drum" tells Jackie Robinson’s story up to the age of fourteen. His first sexual experience was mutual
masturbation with a man in the cinema when he was aged ten or eleven. At the same time, he also falls in love with Timmy (or Eggy as he is known), a school friend of the same age. Eggy and Jackie gradually become more and more intimate and remain friends through all their other relationships.Eddie, the
paedophile in the cinema, asks to see Jackie and again and turns out to be a loving caring police officer who buys Jackie clothes and treats him with real love and respect while abusing him. Jackie is a more than willing participant in all his sexual encounters, whether they are with older men, mature teenagers, boys his own age or youngerpubertal boys.Jackie goes through a series or casual relationships, searching out new partners, then just after his fourteenth birthday, he signs up and joins the army. Army life, with all its handsome young
homosexual boys and men, suits Jackie and he forms an intimate relationship with both an older boy Chesty and a younger one Toby in his regiment.ee also
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