I'll never forget sitting alone in a theater watching "Philadelphia," while the rest of my family watched a kids movie. I was 16 & not out.
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I cried so much in that theater, afraid of so many things — but also afraid of all the things I didn't know. Then, I hid it when I left.
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But, I kept something—the story, that Jonathan Demme directed—close to me. I became obsessed with the movie's soundtrack, in part, to do so.
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Two winters later, I was out, living in DC, and had my first boyfriend. It was a new world, and I've lived in it — out and proud — since.
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It's been more than 20 years since that coming out winter now even, but I still remember the feelings I felt in that theater when I was 16.
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Thanks for telling that story. RIP, Jonathan Demme.
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And thank you for telling your story. That is a beautiful remembrance and a telling statement about the value of art.
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