advances we ve had recently, the advances in anti-discrimination issues, have been because more and more people are willing to be open and honest about their sexual orientation. people know that i m gay, right. i write about it, i ve worked on this issue for a long time, but they haven t really known this story and i hope that telling the story in an open and honest way would let people know that even under the most difficult circumstances, it can be a profoundly liberating and healing experience. i wanted to play the fact that these dad and son relationships like the portmans, we ve got the sammons, the republican who has a gay son but will not change his views on marriage equality and his son matt has made or gave an interview recently and talked about his dad, why he feels he s not a bigot. take a look. it s probably while i was in college, when i was, yeah, at