Dr. Perry Halkitis: ...that being gay made me stronger than I would have felt as a straight man

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🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What’s it like to be a gay man in America today? How is it different for gay men today compared with those in previous generations? Our guest on this episode, Dr. Perry Halkitis, is the author of the new book, Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation. He is also Dean and Professor at the School of Public Health at Rutgers University and a longstanding advocate for the health of the LGBTQ population.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.5	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.0	What's it like to be a gay man in America today?
0:19.5	How is it different for gay men today compared with those
0:22.7	of previous generations? Our guest on this episode, Perry Halquitos, is the author of the new book
0:28.7	Out in Time, The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation.
0:35.0	Perry is dean and professor at the School of Public Health at Rutgers
0:38.5	University and a longstanding advocate for the health of the LGBT population. Perry, thank you so
0:45.0	much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. So talk to us about why you decided to write
0:50.4	your new book out in time. So the book was inspired by a personal story and a personal experience in my life.
1:00.4	My cousin's son, James, came out to me and my husband about two years ago.
1:08.4	And, you know, for all intents and purposes, I thought his coming out process
1:12.5	should be easy because my family had been nothing but loving and kind and supportive my entire
1:18.3	life. And yet, here was this young man at, you know, 18 years old who should, like all
1:25.5	indications that have had an easy time coming out, struggled with it.
1:29.5	He struggled reconciling his identity.
1:31.9	He struggled telling people.
1:33.8	He struggled finding his place in the world.
1:35.5	And what that made me realize is for this young man, a young man, a young white man from an upper middle class background, is having so much difficulty.
1:43.8	A young man who comes from upper middle class background is having so much difficulty.
1:49.5	A young man who comes from a family that has no indication of homophobia,
1:53.0	that has no indication that they stigmatized gay people has a hard time.
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