I like being quoted! :D Yay for me! Thanks for your note, btw. I just heard alot of different opinions about Nagin's statement and I thought I would reserve judgement on that phrase--and remember his point was so accurate
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Oh and after reading the comments above about the men marrying women, I have heard this alot. But I'm gonna be frank here. I think that growing up in the 70s and 80s in rural America, I had no concept that there were people out there who were living lives as openly queer people. And neither did anyone else I knew. And there was a sense of greater loss from people who had to leave their community in order to be okay. Some of that is class-based too--I mean, I knew people, men in my own family, where the scope of their life was very localized and there wasn't this geographic mobility, going away to college and without certain experiences, you don't think that those experiences exist. My stepdad married my mom even though he was gay and he lived a very narrow fucked up life where he drank too much and was emotionally shut down-- and while the marriage is problematic, it's not like he lived this life where other options were available and it's not like we lived in this paradigm where people left and lived other kinds of relationships
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