20xxted英語演講勇敢，是度過難關的唯一方法(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 y pitchblack closet clutching my gay grenade, and moving one muscle is the scariest thing I have ever done. My family, my friends, plete strangers I had spent my entire life trying to not disappoint these people, and now I was turning the world upside down on purpose. I was burning the pages of the script we had all followed for so long, but if you do not throw that grenade, it will kill you.
One of my most memorable grenade tosses was at my sisteramp。39。s wedding. (Laughter) It was the first time that many in attendance knew I was gay, so in doing my maid of honor duties, in my black dress and heels, I walked around to tables and finally landed on a table of my parentsamp。39。 friends, folks that had known me for years. And after a little small talk, one of the women shouted out, amp。quot。I love Nathan Lane!amp。quot。 And the battle of gay relatability had begun.
amp。quot。Ash, have you ever been to the Castro?amp。quot。
amp。quot。Well, yeah, actually, we have friends in San Francisco.amp。quot。
amp。quot。Well, weamp。39。ve never been there but weamp。39。ve heard itamp。39。s fabulous.amp。quot。
amp。quot。Ash, do you know my hairdresser Antonio? Heamp。39。s really good and he has never talked about a girlfriend.amp。quot。
amp。quot。Ash, whatamp。39。s your favorite TV show? Our favorite TV show? Favorite: Will amp。amp。 Grace. And you know who we love? Jack. Jack is our favorite.amp。quot。
And then one woman, stumped but wanting so desperately to show her support, to let me know she was on my side, she finally blurted out, amp。quot。Well, sometimes my husband wears pink shirts.amp。quot。 (Laughter)
And I had a choice in that moment, as all grenade throwers do. I could go back to my girlfriend and my gayloving table and mock their responses, chastise their unworldliness and their inability to jump through the politically correct gay hoops I had brought with me, or I could empathize with them and realize that that was maybe one of the hardest things they had ever done, that starting and having that conversation was them ing out of their closets. Sure, it would have been easy to point out where they felt short. Itamp。39。s a lot harder to meet them where they are and acknowledge the fact that they were trying. And what else can you ask someone to do but try? If youamp。39。re going to be real with s
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