My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.
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When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
Everyone I dated was gay.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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