Michael Kors On Beg Gay: I Was Called Every Name Growg Up (VIDEO) | HuffPost Life

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• MICHAEL KORS ON BEG GAY: I WAS CALLED EVERY NAME GROWG UP (VIDEO)
• MICHAEL KORS GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 52 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

MICHAEL KORS ON BEG GAY: I WAS CALLED EVERY NAME GROWG UP (VIDEO)

Strangely enough though, when I beme a ltle b olr, a teenager, my mom had que a few gay iends.

It was the first time that I was a group of gay people, and I didn’t feel that I was the only one. So when I got to llege, I lled all of my high school iends—I lerally lled them all dividually and said, “By the way, I jt want to let you know I’m gay. About fifteen mut later, I said, “Well, actually, I’m gay.

MICHAEL KORS GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 52 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

By the late ’70s, for the first time, we had real power the culture at large, which was driven by gay people and people of lor. But then there was sudnly this fear the fashn bs—“Oh: Do every gay man have AIDS?. Everythg that Larry Kramer and all of the people at ACT UP were dog… what they phed through saved so many time you thk that homophobia is over and you’re makg progrs, somehow somethg happens to make sli backwards.

I have no ia what I would’ve of my mom’s ncerns for me always, when I was growg up—her iends who were gay were not long-term relatnships, and I thk my mom jt didn’t want me to be lonely. And the ia of the gay ghetto, which once were the only plac we felt safe—well, the realy is that we have stormed the gat.