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MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN
Wh theater doors bolted shut for the next…foreeable future, we’re thrilled to see some Broadway talent pop up the pilot episo of Boy•Friends, a new edy based off the My Gay Boyiend web-seri. The show centers around two llege roommat, one gay and one straight, and their “journey through llege and to adulthood to bee the homo-hetero power uple of the ag. Class, and the odd profsor, on his way to teach , who all knew I'd jt “shacked, ” a term ually rerved to slut-shame sorory women but which was applied jt as egregly to me, the out gay man who wasn't Greek but sperately wished he were.
When I me out my Appalachian high school at 15, my male classmat provid a daily ccible of homophobia. I was lled “cksucker, ” “fudgepacker” and “homo” more often than I was lled by my name. Even as a gay man, my sexual currency was fed through heterosexualy.