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.
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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.
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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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... 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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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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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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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~.
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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.
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I wouldn't meet him at first, he was on the other side of the campus, but
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@chrisgeidner@ATLJono Anderson/Letts or North side of campus? Anderson hall here!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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