Bay Area Reporter :: Working for words: a B.A.R. writer reminisces
In 1985, I moved from Minneapolis to attend the University of San Francisco with a double major in humanities and communications. I was eventually admitted to USF's Honors College where I learned to fall in love with learning. Planting new roots in San Francisco enabled me to flourish as an independent person in a place very different from where I had come. It opened a universe of possibilities combined with the pride I found in discovering there was a city that embraced me as a queer person. On weekends, friends from the university joined me and we escaped our dorms, left the work on campus...
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