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"I would rather have had an abortion than a gay son."
These were the words that Ryan Kendall heard from his mother as a teenager growing up in Colorado Springs, Colo.
In a new blog post on Out Front Colorado, the 27-year-old Denver police officer, who underwent "ex-gay" reparative therapy, reflects on his painful upbringing, one that became part of historic testimony in the federal Proposition 8 trial a year ago this month.
"My family was torn apart because of antigay attitudes that condemn people without a cognizable reason, solely for being who they are," Kendall writes. "All of these thoughts were running through my head as I paced back and forth in the courtroom hallway last year. I had one goal for my testimony: to show the world the truth. I needed to honorably represent all LGBT youth rejected by society."
Read the full post here.
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