You might see me at Metropolitan or One Last Shag from time to time. With work and school, I’m not quite as much of a party boy as I once was. I really like the diversity especially amongst young queer identifying folk in Brooklyn. Having worked at a gay bar in San Francisco and been involved in the scene at a number of levels, New York definitely brings something else to the table. I’m still pretty new to New York, but what I’ve experienced has been cool. If I’d had a role model or someone close to me that could of reassured me that things were going to work out, I would have been so much happier in my adolescent years. The feelings I had about my sexuality as a kid and the empowerment that came from coming out, inform my decision to be outspoken about my sexuality as an adult. In an instant I felt so much more myself, and so much more felt possible.
I had never breathed that deeply or cried with so much relief. He told me that he loved me, and that nothing would change that. Social constructions of identity, and then next thing I know I am telling my father that I’m gay! I remember he pulled over to the side of the road and I cried for a really long time. I came out when I was 20 to my Dad while we were on a long car ride. When there’s no one there to show you what’s possible, it’s incredibly difficult to feel good about who you are or imagine what you’re capable of. Date of Birth 21 August 1961, Jamestown, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Jaws: The Revenge (1987), After Forever (2018) and The Karen Carpenter Story (1989). I didn’t know any gay people or have any gay role models growing up. Mitchell Anderson was born on Augin Jamestown, New York, USA. When I was younger I liked to plan everything and when the thought of being gay came to mind, I couldn’t imagine how it could fit into the straight and narrow path for success I had mapped out. Yet as a kid I held an incredible amount of guilt and self-hatred.
Thom, in his own words: “As a kid from Ohio, the stork couldn’t have dropped me in a more accepting family my parents are very liberal and forward thinking.