A year ago, when Jacob Dorval moved to the City of Montreal, Quebec, to attend the University of Montreal, he felt sorely out of place. Born in the town of Quartier Morin, northern Haiti, Jacob came of age in a rather turbulent era. A decade after the Quake which devastated the City of Port-Au-Prince, Capital of Haiti, the island was still struggling.
The Americans and the United Nations didn't do diddly squat to help the Haitian people. In fact, they seemed hell-bent on playing watchdog and preventing real progress from being made. How Jacob despised these modern-day imperial overlords. The NGOs also prevented the Haitian people from taking care of business with their obstructionism and their interference. Seriously, what did the NGOs do with all their money? Nothing to help Haiti. Small wonder so many Haitians were leaving the island...
Jacob's parents, Charles Dorval and Antoinette LeConte-Dorval wanted their only son to have a bright future, so they encouraged him to study abroad. Lots of young Haitians were studying in places like Cuba or the Dominican Republic. Jacob opted for North America, which he'd visited many times in the past. With the United States of America being in turmoil nowadays, Jacob chose to study in relatively calm and peaceful Canada instead. It turned out to be a wise choice.
Jacob Dorval came to the City of Montreal and stayed with his father's older sister, his dear aunt Judith Dorval and her partner Louisa McKay while studying at the University of Montreal. Aunt Judith, a six-foot-tall, curvy, dark-skinned and silver-haired Haitian Canadian woman with a stern face and a kind heart, proved to be a wonderful find. Jacob hadn't seen her in ages, and she came through for him in his time of need...
"Jacob, filston, you're going to love Montreal, the city is beautiful, and the ladies are amazing," Aunt Judith told her nephew, who nodded and smiled. They were driving home to their townhouse in Montreal-Nord after picking up Jacob at the always crowded Pierre Elliott-Trudeau International Airport. Jacob was happy to be reunited with his long-lost aunt, and to meet her partner, of course...
"I fell for your aunty when I was supposed to be studying engineering at McGill," said Louisa, Aunt Judith's partner. Short and slim, with dark brown skin and curly dark hair, clad in a stylish pantsuit, Louisa McKay moved to the City of Montreal, Quebec, from the island of Jamaica in the late 1990s and never left. She'd been living with Aunt Judith since 1999. Grinning, Jacob exchanged dap with Louisa, who snickered while Aunt Judith rolled her eyes.
"Well, I'll make time for the ladies but I'm a future doctor, so the studying is a must," Jacob said, smiling. The young man looked out the window, at the beautiful City of Montreal. He would explore the French Canadian metropolis in due time, of course. Jacob missed the Republic of Haiti, but he looked forward to his Canadian journey. The place looked promising...
Jacob's hosts were wonderful people, but by the end of his first year in the pre-med program, Jacob had a job as a lab assistant and earned enough to afford his own apartment in the Montreal-Nord area. With privacy at last, Jacob was free to be himself. He still visited Aunt Judith and Louisa from time to time, but he had certain unique interests which he longed to explore.
One fine day in early July, with summer school in full bloom at the University of Montreal, Jacob went to the campus library to use the computers. With the floor largely empty, Jacob found a quiet spot and logged onto a PC. Once online, Jacob went to his favorite spot, Fetlife, where his alter ego Urkel1997 connected with others like himself, young black men struggling with the realities of bisexuality.
"This is just for research purposes," Jacob Dorval typed on the Fetlife forum, addressing a gathering of bisexual black men and the black women who love and support them. The group was unexpected, to say the least, since, in the post-Down Low age, black women's hatred for black men who swing both ways is well-known. In Jacob's experience, the majority of black women love and support gay black men but hate bisexual black men more than unsweetened tea.
Jacob feels attracted to both sexes but hasn't explored his other side yet. On the island of Haiti, where Jacob was born, if a person is bisexual, lesbian, gay or whatever, they should keep it to themselves. The online support group for bisexual black men and their families was a wonderful find and he found it quite refreshing. Of course, Jacob, also known as Urkel1997, had no idea the group would prove so addictive...
"My brotha, make yourself at home," typed a forum user known as BlackBullMaster88. Jacob wrote a smiley face as a response, then checked BlackBullMaster88's profile. The man was tall, dark-skinned and virile, and identified as straight. There were lots of pictures of him having sex with blonde-haired white women. In one picture, a white couple, a plump redhead and a balding white male, knelt before BlackBullMaster88 and joined forces to suck his dick. How about that?
"Interesting," Jacob finally wrote as a reply, and he liked one of the pictures. There were lots of black men on Fetlife who liked sex with both women and men and considered themselves straight. Evidently, there were lots of white couples who crave such black men. The lines between the heterosexual and the bisexual worlds were increasingly blurred. Maybe we should just let people enjoy themselves without labels and bullshit, Jacob thought, wryly amused.
"I just love watching brothers fuck each other and fuck females at the same time," typed someone named RavenXD. Jacob checked out the profile, and its owner turned out to be a curvy, dark-skinned, twenty-something young black woman with dreads. Like a lot of users, RavenXD had porn on her profile. Jacob grinned as he looked at the pictures of black men fucking black men, black men fucking black women, and of course, black women sucking black men's dicks while those same black men were also sucking dicks. Amazing stuff...
"Well, sister, that's a good habit to have," Jacob replied, and he was still smiling when he got a private message from RavenXD. The rather unexpected PM from the lady was definitely not the sort of message that Jacob would have gotten on Facebook or OKCupid. When women thought of Jacob as a heterosexual black male with nerdy tendencies, they avoided him like the plague. What's changed now?