He shared with me that he was Muslim, unwanted by his family once he came out and moved to Fort Lauderdale to live and to feel safe.
We chatted about our past, coming out, family, etc. One of my first dates with a guy in Wilton Manors / Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was with a sexy fun guy. As a simple gay non practicing Christian male living in the gayest city in the country, life is great! AOL was the king of email.įlash forward to a time where people hardly use their phone as a phone, but instead search for dates, recipes, directions, etc. Soon, dial-up internet access was fresh and new. I remember having to sign up in the library to use the new thing called The World Wide Web and Mosaic. Living in rural Maine, in a town of 9,000, graduating high school with 9 of my relatives (cousins and second cousins), and being raised in a Roman Catholic household, coming out and finding resources to deal with my sexuality was interesting.
