Word: gays
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...down-low man in the entertainment industry. I wrote it with the intention of hoping to provide a voice for not only myself but a lot of people who are in the industry or are struggling with their sexuality but also those people who are down-low men or gay men who are looking to get into the business and they can't. It's been really empowering - the experience of writing this book and knowing that I didn't have to out anyone to do that or to tell that type of story...
There's down-low, there's down-low gay and there's gay. What I consider to be in the closet is someone who I would call a down-low gay man. A down-low man is a man who considers himself a bisexual. He has relationships with both men and women but he would never identify his sexuality as that of a gay man because he doesn't see the act of what he's doing as that of being gay. Most times he is the penetrator or he's the receiver in oral sex. So he doesn...
...think the business has now become more receptive because there is an abundance of gay men in the industry, and it just seems to be a natural place for gays for a number of reasons: it's a very creative atmosphere, it's a very freeing atmosphere, it's a very open and liberal atmosphere. I think for whites it has been more accepting because you look at the presence of Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Melissa Etheridge, they've all been accepted. When they came out, the community rallied behind them and encouraged them, and they were empowered. Unfortunately...
...make lots of references to how you didn't really question your sexuality until after you were molested, so what would you say to those who think that being gay is a choice...
...used to think like that until I started meeting more and more gay men and having real, intense dialogue with them and I realized that they were naturally born that way, they had no desire to be with a woman, they always knew that they were attracted to men. It just so happened that in my instance and my situation, I had not had a desire or thought of being with another man until I was molested by the male next-door neighbor. An incident helped spark, I would say, or created an opening for me to start questioning...