clockheartedcrocodile:

I think Peter grew up in a time and place where it was not safe to be a gay man, particularly a sexually active gay man, so any boyfriends he had would come later in life, and he’d be very paranoid about sexual safety. I imagine he’s been to a few rural gay bars in his life, chatted up his share of handsome and scruffy strangers and been chatted right back. I like to think he had a long-term partner, now ex, for a few short but good years, until societal pressure and a significant difference of opinion regarding whether to be out or not eventually broke them apart.

But as someone who keeps himself to himself, I think Peter’s dating / sex-life was pretty nonexistent for a couple years before he met Marcus, barring the occasional disappointing visit to a gay or leather bar.

(And I think he would love having a good Catholic boy to settle down with. Good Catholic boys would’ve been considered charmingly off-limits to him growing up, and now he’s got one with a leather jacket and a crooked smile and the sweetest baby-blue eyes.)