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'AS A BLACK, GAY PHYSICIAN, I'VE SURVIVED IN AMERI BY EMBRACG MY ANGER'

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A gay, Ain Amerin male, about to go to a high school dance, readg the word sent over stant msenger by two of my classmat. I'm also remd of my relatnship wh anger as a Black, gay male livg Ameri; a untry where righteo anger as a morized person n lead to your ath; a untry where simply beg born Black, simply existg wh the "wrong" sk lor n mean you don't make to, that onle msage wasn't the last time I was lled the n-word high school. It was the same wh homophobic slurs.

I hoped would be a place where I uld let go of the first weeks I was rejected om a aterny bee I was gay.

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Some aterny brothers later told me how my beg openly gay had led to me beg "blacklisted" by two people the aterny at the end of votg for bids.

I would show those who said I "didn't get along wh people" that they had msed wh the wrong Black, gay person.

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Durg those two years of graduate school, I felt I was livg Ameri as my te self: a Black, gay man who was also seen as so much more.

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It felt like high school all over aga and seemed that who I was—a Black, gay man—uld not exist wh the medil were my classmat allowed to e discrimatory words, but the send I lmly spoke up for myself or others, ed "ictn"? As a Black, gay man Ameri, was not my job to forever subdue my anger.

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