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Out October: ‘Truth Is, I Was Contemplating Suicide.’ | The New Civil Rights Movement

By Ameriqueer
Check out my piece for The New Civil Rights Movement!

Out October: ‘Truth Is, I Was Contemplating Suicide.’ | The New Civil Rights Movement:

"Today’s Out October Project story comes from Phil Reese, writer and contributor for The Bilerico Project and writer for Ameriqueer, who explains that sometimes it isn’t an actual physical bully pushing you over the edge. Sometimes it is you and your own thoughts that torture and torment.

Missed our other coming out stories? Catch up here!

I was never, exactly, an angst-ridden teen growing up. It might be more dramatic to claim I was some brooding introvert before I made good with myself and turned into this sloshing bucket of sunshine that ‘stands’ before you today. However, truth-be-told, I’ve always been the picture next to “Happy-Go-Lucky” in Webster’s New American. Nature over nurture..."


Click the link above to read the rest, and find out who my worst enemy was, growing up.

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