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Good evening. My name is,

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excuse me is the Valley

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you to identify 56

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stage and coll hour operating

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1st 20 minutes.

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Oh,

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please 2000

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and is supported in part by art
school.

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Grateful to be part

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or see die.

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And

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I also, oh,

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my inspiration

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right

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from,

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oh,

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so why don't step out. Bye

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bye.

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Fine. But

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the water tell them go.

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Ever been to be wild and crazy.

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Ok. I,

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ok.

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What on New York?

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Ok.

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I don't want to miss out on
opportunities to have fun with my life. I do

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not want

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think about being gay,

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I guess

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one

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Sunday like black PS in there. So it's
pretty hot, right?

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What you please

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being changes more turn around other
place.

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So 19, we always sit in metal picnic
tables painted black. We've been

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sitting there since the beginning of
junior year. We've all known each

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other since seventh grade and they've
kind of been like my only friends

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this day I remember was a Thursday
because we were all talking about the

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weekly get together. The L DS church
had every Wednesday night, we all

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went to the same church and the night
grew Hey, you guys get this, get

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this thing out. A new one. What is the
P, to the chicken? We're gonna do a

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little c around here.

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I don't know. I didn't know once last
night, I just, it's just nasty. It's

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like some kind of nasty.

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So, did you put

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like that?

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Yeah, I just, I don't understand what
we have to talk about on Sunday

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school class.

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Our idiot. She,

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do you want it? The new era is an L DS
magazine.

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I don't remember specifically what the
article said, but it was about this

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girl who had rid herself of her
homosexuality.

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I remember being in shock and that's
all. I don't remember what I said,

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but it must have been a negative
response because my friends changed the

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subject and I didn't get the article.
Let's go.

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Yeah.

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Just never really had friends. You
know. So when my Sunday school teacher

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decided to pick homosexuality as a
topic finally found a way to fit in.

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All my friends were mocking and
cracking jokes about this horrible sin and

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it felt really uncomfortable first.
They started to join in. I just

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couldn't stop. I was making people
laugh. People were listening to me this

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week has been great because it was the
first time in my life. The people

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that I actually grew up with say hi to
me at school and I have all these

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new friends.

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God, I just wanna be someone else.
Sometimes you know

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that was when I was 17. Now, three
years later, I've left my religion. I,

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I

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don't know, I guess they still seem
important. And right now where I am in

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my life is that I need people in my
life. So there you have it. But I have

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protected my own identity by going to
places like one in 10. Our key

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speaker can be who I really am. The 18
year old guy here comes to

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sometimes

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we don't really talk.

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So sitting in Sunday school, our
teacher used to tell us to rise above the

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stress. Now there is a mountain by my
house. The but after we appointed,

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how many kinds, where can we sign?
Like

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I like what kind of what happened? How
about the ones we especially like

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which ones? You know, I hear you

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forward fire.

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We that

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Yeah,

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the

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bye.

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Know we the co

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my boyfriend

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go on uh going to rather stay. That
goes

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I, I'm

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flying high to th

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you can call me that. Oh my high
school choir. And I were invited to send

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you Carnegie Hall last when I
auditioned for my first community theater

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show, I was nervous. The first time I
stood alone on stage is when I was

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14 at Apollo High School. I had an
audition. I've never been on stage

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before. Do you speak theater? I didn't
think I could do this in front of

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people, but it's amazing. I had one
director that just totally made me

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doubt myself as that happened. And I
thought maybe this isn't something I

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should do. When it first walked out
alone, states were cold and empty.

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I didn't think people would listen to
me. I really didn't think I knew

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what I was doing

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when we landed in New York and first
walked in. I was a little

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disappointed. I mean, it looks like
any other performance hall backstage

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that have been. But when we light up
in the wing, the door to the stage is

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like glowing. And when we finally went
out, I was stressed, everything

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looks so golden and magical. The room
echoed amazingly when you began to

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sing and the room gets quiet because
people do wanna listen to you and it

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feels so good to finally be, listen.
It feels so safe to be on stage. Like

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the stage becomes modern. Like I just
belong up here that Chip inspired me

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so much because I know that some of my
favorite singers

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this again ever since the first time,
I just, I wanna get my face out

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there. This is a place where I feel
inspired to project my voice and show

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my soul to the world. Ok? It

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together we and that's

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presence and physicality are nice

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speak. I can be who I really am and
I'm very out about it. I know I won't

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hold

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when nothing gentle heart. I not it to
choose whether or not something is

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true to yourself. And sometimes that's
not

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fasten up the,

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when I was 17, I worked at an
apartment store. I'd come out when I was 16

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, but only a select few of my work
that I was gay. Christina knew. So did

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Joey

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might.

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Although I don't really like Mike and
I, that's too bad.

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Sometimes you freeze, you wanna stay
true to yourself. But yeah,

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who I am right now at this moment

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the,

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and I walked through the halls with my
dad.

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Tr how you everybody Michael?

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Did you get there? Like

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look, we're going back. What?

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Yeah, I'm back. Really

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f

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I'm not leaving until you repaint my
locker. I'll stay here all night

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until you get someone here.

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This isn't ok.

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Why is this? Ok?

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I have rights and I'm more than happy
to get some other people here to

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make sure you know what those rights
are. I'm not leaving until you fix

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this are not leaving. I'm not leaving.

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All right.

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Ok.

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Ok. Ok. One

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400 point.

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Mhm.

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Four.

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Mhm.

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No,

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no,

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I

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so

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may lay confused.

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I am not.

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I tie him.

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Wait

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bye.

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Are we

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to?

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Mhm.

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Mama don't be. Yes. Yes.