Josh finally comes out of the closet

Josh initially tries to move the shed, but it doesn’t budge. He then instead opts to display weakness, suggesting that if Tom Cashman was to insult him then, as a weak person, he would attack back and get defensive.

Josh is then seen sitting by the bathtub, reading, as Tom comes running up to him and grabs him by the arm. Josh asks Tom what he is doing and then tells him “No! Back off!”, as he begins to push him away. Josh then kicks Tom in the groin and Tom falls backwards onto the ground.

When Josh then says “What happened?”, Tom looks up from the ground. Josh tells him they are still doing the scene, and instructs him to lie back down and “stay in the scene”.

After Tom then asks Josh why he had attacked him, Josh – while adding drops to his eyes to make himself appear to be crying – says that he doesn’t know. He then goes on to admit that he’s very weak, and has had a very difficult childhood, in which his parents were late to pick him up from pre-school, and he never got a horse. When Tom points out that none of that justifies what Josh had done to him, Josh insists again that he is weak, before admitting that he thinks he might be gay.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson points out that he’d just seen a very strong gay man asserting himself, and not a display of weakness. Josh responds that strength can come out from weakest moments, and that coming out had been his strong moment. He goes onto say, “I was being really strong. And I was coming out, which you… are about to do.”

Tom Gleeson awards Josh 5 points, stating that it takes a lot of strength to come out.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)