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1. Mark Tisdale (tismark@calckey.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 11:34:52 JST Mark Tisdale

   "Just before Christmas in 1987, Geraldo Rivera outed me on national television. I'm sure it wasn't malicious, even though he has a history of shock journalism. He didn't even know my name. During a primetime special, he showed a video clip of me and my boyfriend kissing on the National Mall, taken during the National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights.
   
   I think about this often during Pride Month, even though it happened more than 30 years and several boyfriends ago. The broadcast caused a scandal in my family because I wasn't out to them."
   
   "The closet as a Western construct existed (and still exists) on a spectrum from you're out all the time to you're not even out to yourself. Everywhere on that spectrum, the closet exists as a set of internal and external constraints put on LGBTQ people. For some of us, it keeps us safe, for some it is a mental prison. For me, it is a continual process of undoing its effects."
   
   Those are only a couple of snippets from an, IMO, excellent and sometimes sad article by Jim Berg. 🥺❤️
   
   https://www.salon.com/2023/06/03/geraldo-outed-me-on-national-television/
   
   #Pride #PrideMonth #Gay #LGBTQ #QueerStories #Queer #LGBTQIA

   • Christi Junior (christijunior@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 11:34:52 JST Christi Junior

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     @tismark @tismark Why are you linking to a pro-pedophilia outlet? Oh well, I guess that explains your support for the LGBTP community.
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   • su-27 (su27@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 11:57:47 JST su-27

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     • Christi Junior
     @ChristiJunior @tismark it's almost as if there's some kinda pattern some kind of characteristic linking these two things ey?
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