In the latest from Growing Up, Coming Out, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez reflect on the AIDS epidemic and how coming to New York changed their lives forever.
Jack McCollough:
The only time I heard the word gay growing up was in a negative connotation. We were going through puberty at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and there was a lot of fear.Gay meant AIDS. They co-branded those two things together, and it really worked to scare the shit out of you.I grew up in a pretty conservative, pretty strict household saying “Yes sir” and “No sir” to my dad.
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