I can pinpoint precisely when I became pro-LGBT. The summer I turned 12.

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3. I honestly never thought about it.

Then I moved to Oregon with my spouse in 1992 (we had just been married), and I opened the paper to see a headline: "Nirvana plays benefit to defeat anti-gay measure."

My first thought: "Shit. What kind of place is this?" And yet I had never thought about it, consciously, until then.

Now, in the years before that, in high school and college, I had friends who I knew were gay, but in that era almost no one talked about it. It was just something that didn't seem to matter to anyone in the group. Now, I have no idea what it must have been like for them. Well, I know it had be hard, and scary. I was a very clueless young man, who still just accepted everyone for some odd reason. I feel like I stumbled into acceptance of others via my cluelessness. Or something...