{"id":7656,"date":"2014-02-12T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2014-02-12T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:52:44","slug":"a-coming-out-story-citation-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7656","title":{"rendered":"A Coming Out Story&#8230;[Citation Needed]?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either tonight or tomorrow I&#8217;ll have episode 18 of <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\">A Coming Out Story<\/a> posted. For those of you not following lately, I&#8217;m in the middle of a short, three-part story arc within the story that concerns the horrible sex ed class I had back in junior high school, back in 1968. This little story arc is meant to explain why I can&#8217;t seem to grasp the fact that I&#8217;m gay even while I&#8217;m crushing massively on &#8220;T.K.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m about to relate in episode 18 is what I was actually told about homosexuals and homosexuality at the end of this sex ed class. \u00a0 Going over it all I&#8217;d begun to worry that people reading it would think I was hysterically exaggerating. \u00a0 <em>You were told What!?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I needn&#8217;t have worried&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/gay-soldiers-undermine-military-because-they-have-take-breaks-middle-combat-change-their-dia\">Gay Soldiers Undermine The Military Because They Have To Take Breaks In The Middle Of Combat To Change Their Diapers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You read that right. Go follow the link&#8230;it&#8217;s to an article about one of Gordon Klingenschmitt&#8217;s latest rants. I&#8217;m tempted to add him as a reference to the series, a kind of homophobia&#8217;s greatest hits appendix, for when someone tells me I&#8217;m exaggerating the level of ignorance and prejudice gay people faced around the time of Stonewall. \u00a0 Actually, it&#8217;s still out there, alive and well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either tonight or tomorrow I&#8217;ll have episode 18 of A Coming Out Story posted. For those of you not following lately, I&#8217;m in the middle of a short, three-part story arc within the story that concerns the horrible sex ed class I had back in junior high school, back in 1968. This little story arc [&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":[25,18,19],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-coming-out-story","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","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=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}