Antonio

Caribbean - Barbados: …homosexuality is illegal…

Caribbean - Cuba: …it is illegal to display homosexuality in public…

Caribbean - Grenada: …homosexuality is illegal…

Caribbean - Jamaica: …homosexual acts are unconditionally prohibited…

When it comes to planning my vacations, my well-thumbed gay guide is incredibly useful but also pretty depressing reading.

If, like me, you like your boys black - like your coffee - then you've got to be pretty careful on which tropical paradise you end up setting foot.

Otherwise your stay there might be rather longer than you'd planned.

Of course, ever since I met Alfonso - remember him? - I've had a pretty good source of local information about the best places to go.

And it was Alfonso who told me about the guest house.

Because it's actually set on one of the islands I've listed above, you'll understand why I'm not going into any more specific details about its location.

All it needs is for some local scandal sheet to write a shock-expose based on what I'm telling you now and then the whole thing would fall apart.

And that wouldn't help anyone.

Not you.

Not me.

Not Patrice, the owner.

And certainly not Patrice's 18 year old cousin Antonio, the - ???

Well, what do I call Antonio?

He's the one who really holds the place together.

He's there to serve you breakfast when you wake up…

He's there to give you advice on what's available to do and see during the day…

He's there to serve behind the bar…

He's there to help prepare dinner and to wait on table…

And he's there to have a good time - and to make sure you have one too!

And, if you pick the right time of year for your visit, when there aren't any other guests in residence, Antonio's the sort of boy who'll willingly give you more - much more - than his undivided attention.

Wanna look?

I guess I had to show you a more "respectable" picture first, but that one doesn't really do him justice.

Because in it he's sitting down.

And that's just not Antonio.

Whenever I think of him it's in a state of motion - walking, running, playing ball games on the beach, swimming, fuc…

No, maybe we'll get to that bit later.

And he's a pretty uninhibited boy too.

Antonio just loves having his picture taken - which means that when I get back to the States I get to remember all the great times we had together.

And it also means that you get to see them too.

Antonio would love that.

He's a complete exhibitionist.

So I'm not gonna do much now except let you see a few of the shots I took on the beach that afternoon.

I wasn't trying to make Antonio look erotic.

It was an afternoon for fun, rather than sex.

And I think that comes out in the pictures.

But, believe me, Antonio can be as erotic as he wants whenever I go back to stay at the guest house.

And, thankfully, he always is…