March 2013

Getting to Know Myself

Going to extremes to “prove” he was not gay fueled his need for booze

Today I am thoroughly convinced of two things: I was born gay, and I was born an alcoholic. There was never a choice about my homosexuality; and, after I picked up my first drink, there was no choice about my alcoholism either. (I was bred from a long line of alcoholics.) Nevertheless, I spent many years in denial about both truths.

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