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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
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