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TIM GAY
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A former state senator and chairman of the Health and Human Servic Commtee, Tim Gay is Print and founr of Catalyst Public Affairs.
"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.
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"I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay? "I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.
Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay. Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay.
At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone. "Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.
TIM IS GAY
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For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. "At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay. " Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy.