equals and friends. it must have been controversial at the time and made people uncomfortable, can you talk about what that was like before that article was published. >> if i can help illuminate the audience. one line from in 1992 opinion piece that you wrote you said i was disgusted by gays. the thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal labott me. allow me more direct escaping the euphemisms of my past i hated gays. the point of the piece was that you changed your view. back to tom's question, what was it like when the article came out. >> raising a family speaks toward justice. growing up as a young man in a toxic environment of football and the like, as a campus activist i wanted to try to push people to understand the absurdities of homophobia, and became a campus activist on those issues, and so i wrote this article to challenge people about their homophobia and about