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As gay men, we lived with the repression and hostility. We won’t go back there again | Opinion Original
I was a child in May of 1933, but still big enough to listen to the radio with my parents. I’m sure I didn’t understand the reporting of the book burning in Germany, but I’ve never forgotten that night. My mother was crying, and my father was trying to comfort her. She seldom cried, so I knew something terrible was happening. But no one, at that time, knew how bad it was going to be. Nor do we now as we watch the books banned in Florida. Yet isn’t it all too obvious?
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The day came for my physical. I went through the routine like an automaton, distancing myself from the hundreds of young men who stood self-consciously in their underwear. One of the doctors took a long time examining my ears. “Perforated eardrums,” he said. I was free. I got a scholarship at the New School for Social Research, which had a prestigious drama workshop. On my first day, the registrar gave me my schedule: Theory of the Theatre, Acting, March of the Drama, Movement, and Makeup.
BookTrib's BookBites: Three Moving Personal Stories, and an Rx for Healthcare
(NewsUSA) "Come Hope or High Water" by Candi Cross The authorized biography of Steve Knuth, CEO of AgWest Commodities, is a recovery story about a man of many missions. Getting and staying sober after 25 years of blackout drinking was the hardest mission to accomplish. However, add to that daily battle the task of saving dozens of family farms from the volatile markets of agriculture in rural Nebraska, and you have a 21st-century superhero.
BookTrib's BookBites: Three Moving Personal Stories, and an Rx for Healthcare
(NewsUSA) "Come Hope or High Water" by Candi Cross The authorized biography of Steve Knuth, CEO of AgWest Commodities, is a recovery story about a man of many missions. Getting and staying sober after 25 years of blackout drinking was the hardest mission to accomplish. However, add to that daily battle the task of saving dozens of family farms from the volatile markets of agriculture in rural Nebraska, and you have a 21st-century superhero.
BookTrib's BookBites: Three Moving Personal Stories, and an Rx for Healthcare
10/13/2020 - (NewsUSA) "Come Hope or High Water" by Candi Cross The authorized biography of Steve Knuth, CEO of AgWest Commodities, is a recovery story about a man of many missions. Getting and staying sober after 25 years of blackout drinking was the hardest mission to accomplish. However, add to that daily battle the task of saving dozens of family farms from the volatile markets of agriculture in rural Nebraska, and you have a 21st-century superhero.
BookTrib's BookBites: Three Moving Personal Stories, and an Rx for Healthcare
(NewsUSA) "Come Hope or High Water" by Candi Cross The authorized biography of Steve Knuth, CEO of AgWest Commodities, is a recovery story about a man of many missions. Getting and staying sober after 25 years of blackout drinking was the hardest mission to accomplish. However, add to that daily battle the task of saving dozens of family farms from the volatile markets of agriculture in rural Nebraska, and you have a 21st-century superhero.
BookTrib's BookBites: Three Moving Personal Stories, and an Rx for Healthcare
(NewsUSA) "Come Hope or High Water" by Candi Cross The authorized biography of Steve Knuth, CEO of AgWest Commodities, is a recovery story about a man of many missions. Getting and staying sober after 25 years of blackout drinking was the hardest mission to accomplish. However, add to that daily battle the task of saving dozens of family farms from the volatile markets of agriculture in rural Nebraska, and you have a 21st-century superhero.
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