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DAN BAER ON GROWG UP GAY AND HIS CHALLENGE TO CORY GARDNER

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"I feel lucky, a sense, to be gay — which is somethg weird for me to say given the number of years I felt like that was an albatross around my neck and thkg was gog to keep me om leadg a fulfillg life, " Baer says while seated bi his hband, climate enomist Brian Walsh, their Five Pots home. "I feel like I'm fortunate to have grown up gay a place" — he spent his formative years Ltleton — "that wasn't yet hospable to LGBT people.

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