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THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
” Durg his early teenage years, he was stgglg wh ternalized homophobia. “I mean, I saw as a way out of my homosexualy if that mak any sense.
’ You know, I don’t have to be a gay guy. And all this horrible stuff that I thought about my homosexualy, and was like a light bulb. Gay.
As a gay man my early 30s I am not now attracted to children but to. I also knew that my dad mt be gay—bee, well, of urse. While I’d never met an out gay man, I kd of knew what they were supposed to be like om movi and TV, and Dad f the mold: He loved to ok; he cleaned obssively; he kept the Internatnal Male talog around, bee, he said, “I like the cloth.