I was working late one night with the correspondent I was interning for and her producer, and they were just grilling me about women, asking: “Who are you dating?” I was really cagey, and finally I said to the woman-who was my producer!-“Are you f****** with me? Why are you doing this?” And she goes, “What do you mean?' I said, “I’m gay,” and she goes, “Are you kidding me?” She couldn’t believe it-and she then felt like she had to confess something to me, so she proceeded to tell me she was getting a divorce. People started laughing, calling him a fag. I was in the closet, and I remember being in the control room as Vito Russo was on the screen. In 1989, I had my first internship at CBS This Morning in New York, which Gayle King now co-hosts. Louis because she wanted to get involved in my community. After my mom found it, I came out to her-and she later wound up getting involved in an AIDS charity in St. I'd originally written it in my journal, when I realized I’d have to come out eventually, and it said everything I felt I needed to say it was a long, freeing kind of purge of self-expression in which I was just explaining who I was, which I often used to tell my friends.

The letter said, “I told my friend Jackie, 'I'm freaked out because I don't know how to tell others.” It was clear I was coming out to people in the letter. I was 20 years old, and when I came home, my mom had found a letter that I wrote to my roommate in London. Eventually, I wound up going to London to study abroad.

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