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On the morng of Sept. 21, 2011, Jt Hickey didn’t have to hi anymore. At the time, Hickey was a pta and an operatns officer wh the 60th Aircraft Matenance Squadron at Travis AFB, California. That morng, however, he was a gay man who no,

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“It touch all of this unspoken, valier misogyny, homophobia, racism, all the stuff that’s jt unr the surface that’s so sry and toxic. Michael is not fightg for his survival the way he would have been not long ago; the pills we see him take, which would almost certaly have been HIV meditn for any middle-aged gay character up to this pot, might jt be stats.

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For the gay men of Generatn X, “’s like we’re no longer livg a war zone. He starred “The Inherance” on Broadway, a vast, two-part play that addrsed the post-AIDS crisis generatn gap, and 2015’s off- Broadway “Dada Woof Papa Hot, ” he played a gay father wh a se of survivor’s guilt. But the qutn still troubl him: “If I have all the same thgs as a straight person, if my problems are the same as theirs, then what mak me gay?

The first generatn of gay men to live their liv openly lost those liv to AIDS, whether they actually died or were jt left to tend to those who did. Osborne—how he’d ially said beg gay wasn’t the most important thg about him; how he’s begng to realize actually might be; and how I’m startg to realize we say that to make ourselv seem ls threateng.

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“I me out at a time where agents and producers were like: ‘Better be reful, you played a gay part last year, don’t do that aga for a while.

’ And Tony said ‘Beg gay is not your personal life.

Beg gay is who you are. ’” I have to ask: if he’s thought about what mak him gay, what has he e up wh? “I don’t know what a gay dog is, but the are not the giant mangy straight-guy dogs I thought I was supposed to get.

TRAVIS SQUADRON MANR REFLECTS ON REER AS OFFICER, GAY MAN

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Generatn X is left largely alone to figure out what gay middle age looks like, and to mol what after, the first generatn to do so en masse and openly.

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