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Season 1: Episode 2: Wendell Sayers

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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The Fear of Being Gay

I went first place, I'd say, to know or to meet somebody who was like me. Once I found there were others besides me, I was much better able to accept myself. They probably weren't accustomed to having any contact with blacks. So I come in and once I found somebody else besides me that I would say they were gay. Up until that time, no one had said, I knew a few. But I mean to have a group. And I was completely happy to find somebody because I thought I would be accepted and a part of the crowd. The first meeting I went to. Guys were not friendly but that was all right. All they knew was I was a

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