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When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.

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Jason Wu
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 27
Fashion Designer
Yunlin
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Gay
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