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GenY Finds Coming Out Still Difficult

Started by Natasha, June 27, 2008, 05:19:21 PM

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GenY Finds Coming Out Still Difficult

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/062708closet.htm
6/27/2008

It was a black, stretch-velvet dress that outed Shawn Fowler at the age of 14.

Hours earlier, the sexy number had been tucked secretly away in his bedroom - along with a wig, lipstick and mascara. Yet there was his sister, sashaying through his grandparents' house, only she was donning the frock.

``That was the catalyst that started me talking to my family about being gay,'' Fowler, now 29, recalled.

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