We Are Not Alone… with Ekin K & Emrullah T
<p>I’m always embarrassed by how long it took me to feel OK about my sexuality. When I was a kid, I just wanted to be normal, and whether you want to blame it on a different time or a different place, I didn’t know of any way to be gay and happy. I had no role-models. The gays on TV were the punchlines of jokes and I’d never met an actual gay person, apart from one summer when I volunteered at a hospice as part of the ‘community service’ requirement set by my Catholic high school. In that hospice were a few gay men in the final stages of AIDS… gentle, kind and interesting men whom the teachers at my school had no sympathy for since their contraction of AIDS was ‘their fault’, owing to a ‘sinful lifestyle’.</p>
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