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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."
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"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
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"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."
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"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
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"David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style."
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"As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are."
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"As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment."
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"When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family."
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"My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on."
Life
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