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How My Deeply Personal Coming Out Story Wound Up on the National News By Christopher Vasquez– I think it’s safe to say that most queer youth don’t imagine their coming out story to take place in the press. It’s very safe to say that I did not imagine mine would take place in the pages of The New York Times, on the air on NPR, or on people’s TV sets during MTV News. But that’s where my journey as a young, newly-out LGBTQ-activist youth started. My story as a gay man starts as many do for queer youth in less-than-progressive Central Florida two decades ago deeply in the closet and afraid that family and high school friends would find out the secret that I had been hoping for a long time was just a mistake. But as I came to realize in myself that what I was feeling wasn’t actually a mistake, but was actually a part of who I was and something I couldn’t change no matter how much I hoped and prayed, I knew that I needed some way to cope, so ....