{"id":11895,"date":"2022-09-19T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:36:35","slug":"11895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11895","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason To Be Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has their type. In retrospect what I was always looking for was that nice boy&#8230;someone in a better world that I might have met at a church social or youth coffeehouse like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11196\">The Lost and Found<\/a><\/em> was. Someone I could take home to mom and she&#8217;d be pleased to meet them and invite them to stay for dinner. Someone I&#8217;d take to the prom. Someone I could make a life together with.<\/p>\n<p>But I came of age in the late 60s\/early 70s, and back then all those nice boys were terrified. They didn&#8217;t want their families to hate them. They didn&#8217;t want their friends turning on them. They were terrified of getting those looks of disgust. And it&#8217;s all the negative crap we were dumped on back then that&#8217;s a big part of why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/intermission_2-2.png\" width=\"975\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/intermission_2.htm\"><em>From A Coming Out Story &#8211; Intermission &#8211; What I Learned About Homosexuality. . . And Myself (Part 2)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I struggled to find romance and for me at least it just didn&#8217;t work. But I&#8217;ve seen it work for others, so at least I know it could have. But it was a real long shot given the time I was a gay teenager, and I missed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I am out with it: So what happened to me doesn&#8217;t have to happen to other gay kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has their type. In retrospect what I was always looking for was that nice boy&#8230;someone in a better world that I might have met at a church social or youth coffeehouse like The Lost and Found was. Someone I could take home to mom and she&#8217;d be pleased to meet them and invite them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[190,12],"class_list":["post-11895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}