You have to understand what the world was like back then. Being queer was very dangerous, and there was a lot of stigma about it. Even when I was hus… - John Rechy

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You have to understand what the world was like back then. Being queer was very dangerous, and there was a lot of stigma about it. Even when I was hustling, it took me a long time to realise myself as a gay man. It's hard to accept that some of us, at one time or another, had heterosexual feelings. I certainly did. I emerged very slowly into homosexuality, despite the way I was living.