"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."

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"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."

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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."

Christian

"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."

Being

"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."

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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."

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