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OK, so. I found this slide. I'm gonna have to get this turned into a proper photo, but, wow, does this tell a story.pic.twitter.com/FBuPEpXCzS
Note the date, 7/24/95. This is Jim Ryan on the left & little, 17 y/o me on the right at Teen Institute in Ohio. I was a month from college.
It was 20 years ago last month, and I was at Teen Institute (TI) for the third time. I was like, on the state planning committee this year.
TI was, on its face, about alcohol & drug abuse prevention and youth leadership. It was a version of SADD, but more broadly focused.
For me, though, TI was so much more important than that. It was the '90s, and I was a gay kid growing up in the Youngstown, Ohio suburbs.
TI was the 1st place I met gay people. Jim was one of them, along w Mickey Hart. They were young adults who were out. It changed everything.
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.
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!
We exchanged addresses and phone numbers, and began writing letters to one another. Yes, hand-written letters. In one letter, I came out.
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