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Brotherly Love

STORY: 1976-1979—I moved to NYC for a position in a bank training program in October 1976 and almost immediately befriended another...

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Coming Out, 1982

STORY: During my first few years in NYC, I only had one foot out of the closet. I had my gay friends, and I had my straight friends and...

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The Queen of Disco

STORY: June 1978–The cracks in my closet appeared slowly. By 1978, I was out with my family and my college fraternity brothers, but I had...

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We Are Family

STORY: 1979-2017: My first relationship with another man began when I met Jim at the YMCA in 1979. I was 26, about to leave a job I...