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Garrett Glaser

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Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Nonfiction

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Garrett Glaser was the first "out of the closet" local TV news anchor and correspondent in the United States. He "came out" while on the air on the Channel 4 News at KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, on December 5th, 1994, when he was 41. Garrett grew up in Manhattan in the early 1960's and knew he felt homosexual attractions by the age of eleven. He came out to his parents in 1967, at the age of 14. The first thing his mother told him was, "You're going to a psychiatrist right now young man and we're going to put a stop to this! Do you understand me?" ...more

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I just received an e-mail message from the Log Cabin LGBTQ Republicans in SAN DIEGO recounting how some of their members were harrassed at a gay bar yesterday at a social event in honor of the California State GOP Convention being held in San Diego this weekend. It was apparently a group of angry woke lesbians who demanded that the gay Republicans leave. The Log Cabin people had been invited by th Read more of this blog post »

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Scout's Honor: Sexual Abuse in America's Most Trusted Institution

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