Thanx for explaining your point Bagpuss....I fully accept what you say about your sign in name...

I've recorded several acoustic musicians who were gay,they were excellent musicians and very normal sane sensible people not foaming at the mouth for an encounter with a young boy....

As for Boston and the Irish community..I am a Londoner of Irish descent,and I can testify that Ireland is riddled with prejudices probably born from all the medieval religious indocrination thats long gone on their that has created a culture of pointing the finger at anyone slightly different...Things are getting better slowly..I have noticed on my visits they have become more cosmopolitan and much less phased by foreigners and these days Dublin has its own gay area,but whilst catholics and protestants are still unable to live together in harmony you cant realy expect too much enlightenenment from such a country that still remains divided by such ancient religious differences.