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" I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school. "

Kevyn Aucoin

School

Gay

Think

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Ideals

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Vision

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