Aidan Shaw has a special place on the notch in my belt. When I was sixteen and had a newly acquired driver’s license (a California birthright), he advertised ever so briefly in gay rag Frontiers along with his then roommate Dave Logan who too was a Falcon exclusive at the time. They lived off Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood near what was then called the TomKat gay adult theater. I of course lied about my age courtesy of a fake idea, did drugs (coke and ecstasy) before the designated hour, and had sex with both of Aidan and Dave. I’ll always remember that rose tattoo of his. When Sex in the City debuted his namesake, I found it quite cheeky Darren Star named one of Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) love interest after this porn legend. With that tattoo, he always reminded me of a short story in the debut edition of late Advocate writer John Preston’s erotic collection “The Flesh and the Word”. I believe the story was called “The Sergeant with the Rose Tattoo”. Reading that two years before hand as freshman in high school seemed like a prophecy.