I was closeted when I lived in Ohio. I even went to a seminary school to try not to be gay. I didn’t allow myself to be gay until I moved to California. The first time I went back to a school reunion was my 20th. And I was hesitant. I had a lot of friends and my friends were wonderful to me, but it was a big class and there were people I didn’t know well and they called me, instead of Terry Ray I was Fairy Gay and I was bullied and so I was nervous about going back to my high school reunion. But I went and everybody was so nice. I couldn’t even remember who the people were that called me names. I didn’t really know them and twenty years later everybody was really super nice. I think in my case people just grew up and changed. I now I am treated so beautifully whenever I go back and after having written this play, “Electricity” which is about two guys meeting up after their 10th high school reunion and then 20th and 30th and 40th, so I connected that to my class and I thought about it so much more and opening night I had like twenty classmates there and I was wondering how are they going to take this? And they were lovely! They really were lovely!
