I was thinking about writing a Gene/Sam fic in which Gene is hot for Sammy but can't admit it, and so it happens that he gets desperate at some point and tries to simply take what he can't bring himself to ask for, only to have Sam beat the shit out of him and tell him that if he wants this, fine with Sam, but he's not going to get to take it by force. After some sulking and wound-licking there would be a long talk and then some hot steamy man sex with a side dish of guilt thrown in.

If that could be seen as your plot summary (don't worry I'm not holding you to it) then I think you'll be OK. Mikey's stories have a closeted Gene who wants Sam and a Sam who has feelings for Gene that he can't get comfortable with as he's never "been" gay. It covers some of the same territory -- a background of what a closeted Gay man's life would have been like at the time -- but is definitely a different take on it. Her Gene *knows* himself and has had homosexual relationships before it is Sam trying to align his emotional feelings with being able to express them physically that is more the problem. I think you'd enjoy them and, as I said, if your paragraph above might be seen as a potential plot summary I don't really see a conflict.

If the dangerous food colouring bothers you we could just have some Garibaldis or a nice Party 7 instead... *g*