“I’ve lived in the city 15 years.”
“What brought you here in the first place?”
“The freedom of the city. You can be openly gay and not have any problems. I came from upstate New York and when I came out of the closet people I had known for 20 years wouldn’t talk to me. I came out to San Francisco on business and realized I was gay…and it was a good thing.”
“Being here helped you step into yourself?”
“Yeah, San Francisco is fabulous in that sense. I don’t know that there’s anywhere else in the country that allows such freedom.”