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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      I met them the 1st time I went and was probably mostly just scared. The 2nd time I went, on youth staff, I was able to actually meet them.

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      That summer, I also met an out gay HS student, Mike. It was incredible to me, in the summer of '94. He wasn't even a rising senior like me!

      1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      We exchanged addresses and phone numbers, and began writing letters to one another. Yes, hand-written letters. In one letter, I came out.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      I told Mike something that I never thought I would tell anyone. Eventually, I told Jim & Mickey as well, tho, honestly, I don't know when.

      2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      By time the spring '95 came around, I knew I was going to American U in DC in the fall. So, after graduating from HS, I started coming out.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      I told my close friends. Counting Mike & Jim & Mickey, no more than 12 people. I was still scared shitless about what this would ~mean~.

      1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      I remember writing in a series of unsent-at-first letters to my best friend about how this would likely mean that politics was out for me.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      And, I only came out to those friends because I knew I was leaving at the end of the summer. There was no rejection, tho. It all was great.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      Most of them either thought I was gay or weren't surprised by it, and I had good friends from speech & debate and drama club who were ...

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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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      ... well, the types of people who tended to be OK with such things. And then I went to TI for the third time, and was awkward about myself.

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015

      I was in the coming-out process, and it can be awful at points! But, even in its awkwardness, it was so empowering to have Jim there w me.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I don't remember what this slide was about, but I presume we were just speaking at an evening TI gathering in the auditorium at Kenyon.

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          It was, though, the beginning of my learning who I was as a gay man. After TI, I had a great summer — even some flirtation and ~more~.

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          And I was able to realize that it was going to be OK. ... This week, 20 years ago, I moved from Ohio to DC. I was a freshman at American.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I wouldn't meet him at first, he was on the other side of the campus, but @ATLJono was also starting at AU. And, eventually, we would meet.

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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I was still heartbroken over a boy from home at first, writing to Jim about how ~lost~ I was and such — but Jim helped me through it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          And, even though I wasn't out upon arrival at AU, I ~cautiously~ started coming out to people within a month of arriving. It was glorious.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          Over Thanksgiving, I came home to Ohio & came out to my mom. She was as wonderful as a mom could be. ... The next week, I went back to DC.

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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          Over those weeks, @ATLJono and I had been flirting with each other in the course of our of volunteer work for World AIDS Day.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          Then, on Dec. 1, 1995, he kissed me. And I kissed him. And we started dating.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I screwed many things up over the course of our relationship, did many things just out-and-out wrong, learned many things, and grew up some.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          (I still screw things up today, as I have done most days since '95. But, that's life, and y'all know I love living honestly about that.)

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          But, throughout the past 20 years, I have been so incredibly blessed to have met, fallen in love with, & then become friends with @ATLJono.

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          I am similarly grateful to have had TI in my life — & to have had Jim & Mickey (both of whom I still am in touch with) & Mike there.

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I also have a mother and had a father who loved me unconditionally. ... My story is a fairy tale compared to so many others from then.

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I also know that, but for an accident of timing, I easily could have been lost to AIDS.

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          I was just young enough to have missed so much of the horror. I stand in awe to this day of those who lived & fought & cried through it.

          2 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          One of the pictures I ran across tonight, from Oct. 1996, has me thinking about that "accidental" part of my story:pic.twitter.com/WvHEcornQn

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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          That's @ATLJono and me at the AIDS Memorial Quilt in 1996 — the last time the whole Quilt could be unfolded on the National Mall.

          2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          .@ATLJono & I have been friends for many times more time than the, in retrospect, brief time we dated. He's been a rock & incredible friend.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          It is great to know, though, that I was lucky enough to have met such an incredible person to have been my ~first~ boyfriend. I'm v lucky.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Of c, the two decades since have not been all joy. I've had pain & troubles, like anyone, but I've always had people who loved me deeply.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
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          And, from that slide more than 20 years ago, I've always had great mentors & friends who have helped me when I'm down & celebrated my wins.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          It all started, though, with me being willing to write those words to another high school kid in 1994: "I'm gay, too."

          3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          And, btw, 1994 Chris: Safe to say, politics is going to be a big part of your career — and being gay actually makes you better at your job.

          2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 27 Aug 2015
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Thanks for listening, y'all. You're pretty wonderful yourselves. 😘

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