Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone.

Contents:

• SCED BY MY SISTER'S BOYIEND PART 1: A GAY TABOO EROTI STORY
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

SCED BY MY SISTER'S BOYIEND PART 1: A GAY TABOO EROTI STORY

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THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

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TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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Years later Mom told me that, acrdg to Pat, Dad had been active Lexgton and Louisville’s gay club scene. ) But to actually let me —to s on that blue blanket, look me the eye and tell me he was gay—was somethg he uldn’t do. “I asked Mom once if you were gay, ” I would have said.