"A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves."
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"My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.“
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