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" For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really. "
George Michael
Strange
Reason
Opposite
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" In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that. "
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