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Category: What Are You Proud Of?

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Posted inWhat Are You Proud Of?

Closets are for clothes: I’m out, loud and proud

by Karen Hawkins June 22, 2012December 29, 2017

It’s a not-so-proud moment with a happy ending. It was 1999, and I was living in Milwaukee, working at my first job after college. I’d only recently come out and hadn’t really told anyone beyond my longtime friends, who, by the way, did not even have the decency to pretend to be surprised I was […]

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