Comments on: AIDS, Me & Us: 25 Years Later http://www.republicoft.com/2006/06/05/aids-me-us-25-years-later/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:30:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: turingcub http://www.republicoft.com/2006/06/05/aids-me-us-25-years-later/#comment-51 turingcub Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:42:36 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2006/06/05/it-was-25-years-ago-today/#comment-51 Wow, Mr. T dude. I was 9 in 1981 and I wouldn't come out until I was 15, but then only to a few friends and not to the whole school. Even though kids today are coming out younger than that, I can't imagine what it must have been like to have faced a mature truth at 12, nor to be young gay and black. You're a brave soul. If I'd gone to see Reagan's body, I would have spit on it. I just can't respect men like him, and like this Owens character. Quid pro quo, I guess, and they threw the first stone at me. Wow, Mr. T dude. I was 9 in 1981 and I wouldn’t come out until I was 15, but then only to a few friends and not to the whole school. Even though kids today are coming out younger than that, I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have faced a mature truth at 12, nor to be young gay and black. You’re a brave soul.

If I’d gone to see Reagan’s body, I would have spit on it. I just can’t respect men like him, and like this Owens character. Quid pro quo, I guess, and they threw the first stone at me.

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