Do you remember talking to me the night that I came out of the closet? I completely do. Get out of! Okay, tell me what you remember.

I shouldn't have been like, who did I think I was? You were perfect, first of all.

Roll the dice, go for it.

And it's like, it's strange.

Obviously, I guess because we were in neighboring towns,

I was just like, girl, you have nothing to lose.

But it could have been crazier if you were like in a really risky situation.

But at the time you were already out for all.

You were doing things. You were showing. You were in a glass house.

From crooked media, this isn't wholly year than now.

I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

We've covered a lot of ground so far this season,

from the redemption of Christianity

to the rebirth of friends and loved ones

during the pandemic.

But as this podcast starts to come to a close, I wanted to go on a little bit more

of an internal journey. In my interview with Chris Stedman from earlier this season, we talked about the

importance of queer gathering spaces online, and I mentioned that one of the most important people in my coming

out process was actually somebody I'd never even met in real life up until fairly recently.

When I started to realize that I might be gay, I didn't know where to turn to.

There was nobody, faculty or student, family, friends, community.

I could think of who I'd feel safe chatting with.

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