Anonymous1: One of these days I'll have to explain youthful homoerotic experimentation on the Great Plains to you guys. Mostly when I was that age, a lot of us did other guys, but, well...Masturbation was done in groups, or other things not involving penetration.
Oral was another thing. Guys did it, but sucking stigmatized you as "that way", while being sucked was fine. No one talked about it except in the hushed tones of an incorrigible gossip, and only speaking of it to one guy at a time.
Anal was just not discussed. I only knew of it from homophobic jokes.
That is to say, "gay" wasn't accepted: we just defined "gay" in a way that excluded things we all did. (Or that weren't "gay" before the 70s, though ironically gays before then were more into blowjobs.)
I imagine Wally, being from Nebraska and infamously conservative in his teen years just like his uncle (though not as bad, Barry at times came off as a racist) during the Bronze Age, would be similar.
Oral was another thing. Guys did it, but sucking stigmatized you as "that way", while being sucked was fine. No one talked about it except in the hushed tones of an incorrigible gossip, and only speaking of it to one guy at a time.
Anal was just not discussed. I only knew of it from homophobic jokes.
That is to say, "gay" wasn't accepted: we just defined "gay" in a way that excluded things we all did. (Or that weren't "gay" before the 70s, though ironically gays before then were more into blowjobs.)
I imagine Wally, being from Nebraska and infamously conservative in his teen years just like his uncle (though not as bad, Barry at times came off as a racist) during the Bronze Age, would be similar.