Pettger, who’s an NHL player agent, field ngratulatory texts om Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid when he told them he was gay.
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MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND
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It's no secret that growg up gay n be a lonely experience. At tim, many gay men feel as though they're the only on experiencg certa thoughts and feelgs, on that society still often ems abnormal.
So when a gay man first bonds wh someone else who intifi as gay or queer, 's evably a total lightng bolt moment. I'm no longer close wh my first gay iend, Jam, bee we're very different people now. But I still remember clumsily g out to him after a Le Tigre ncert and him sayg, "I thk I'm gay, too.
" He was hot—I thk everyone thought so—but I didn't thk he was gay. Then we started chattg and he said "I'm gay" the most offhand way. He didn't still a sense of ternalized homophobia me, which was important bee I was a mpy gay guy who'd always been teased for beg mpy.