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MCGREEVEY: FIRST OUTED AS GAY DURG SUT MPG TRIP
Jim McGreevey, who notorly rigned as New Jersey's chief executive 2004 after admtg to a gay affair, took to the stage at the TEDxAsburyPark nference on Saturday to talk about his sexualy and his own prejudic. McGreevey, 59, of Jersey Cy, said he first felt shame over his homosexualy while on an overnight mpg trip wh the Boy Suts at the age of he drifted off to sleep, he overheard a number of other boys seated around a nearby mpfire, e a variety of ephets to scribe their belief that McGreevey was probably gay. "Homo, queer; and the are words that terrified me, " McGreevey said.
' He don't like girls, he's a homo. I am gay. "Jim McGreevey to give TEDxAsburyPark talk on intyA few weeks later, McGreevey went to the public library his hometown and surreptly looked up the word: "homosexualy" the library talog.
There he found a sgle rd, read: "For homosexualy, see sexual viancy, " he McGreevey, a smart, earnt young boy — who me om a proud Irish-Amerin fay wh s own storied past Amerin history — and who wanted to do good and be good the world, was too much to only were the boys around the mpfire right about him, but now he uld see om the x rd the library talog that even the smartt people the world had termed he was a g: Who do you thk we are? "That of beg gay was a dark, ugly shadow the recs of my md, " McGreevey said. 12, 2004, when he announced that he was "a gay Amerin" and would rign as ernor.