User blog:Monitor earthprime/GAY 101: Dating a Closeted Man/Boy

One of the main themes on USA Network's Eyewitness are Lukas and Philip relationship. Lukas surprisingly attracted to the newest boy in town Philip Shea. This is Lukas first brush with the thought of a homosexual relationship and he dosn't understand it. Lukas has grown with the mindset of the 'straight' life (date girls, get married, have kids). He lives on a farm and loves to do motorcross. He never thought about boys in a sexual manor and this scares him. When Lukas is around Philip he seems like a different boy but due to years of programed hetersexual nature it scares him to admit that he truly is gay and in love with Philip.

This feeling he has towards Philip is Lukas personal war that he has to deal with. Philip role is to show him that there more that just hetro-relationships and that once Lukas admits he's feeling toward Philip and that being in a homosexual relationship is just as normal as a hetrosexual relationship.

In the mean time as Lukas starts to see cracks in his 'closet' he will try and show effection towards Philip the only way he can but will often fall back into what he thinks of being a 'man' or 'macho' attutide (pushing, wrestling, shoving and fighting). This does not mean like Lukas & Philip are in a battered relationship, Lukas has to reprogam his mind that he has to except the fact that he is gay and he likes the same sex (this case Philip). Once he does that then he will be comfortable with showing that appropriate towards his boyfriend.

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This is just my presonal belief and years being in the LGBTQI community. I have 'dated' my share of closed males and what is happing on Eyewitness is very close to what happens in real relationships.