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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the Village Voice and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. – Gus Van Sant

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