By Michael Margol The send half of the Gay Play Seri (or GPS for short) got unrway Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. sharpish at The Rgwald Theatre
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‘GAY PLAY SERI,’ BLOCK B: BETTER THAN S LLECTIVE TLE
(RNS) — When Grant Hartley first disvered he was gay at age 13, he adopted what he lls an “ex-gay mdset. “I started to thk of more as a gift, as a strength, ” said Hartley, now 28 and openly gay. While grateful for the experience of beg gay, Hartley se his gay inty as somethg that go beyond jt sex — “I never say that I’m grateful for same-sex sexual sire, ” he said — also clus athetics, culture and worldview.
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