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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 07:30 AM
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Sports Columnist Steve Buckley:Welcome to my coming-out party
A candid admission: There was a time when I hated it when my mother would call with an urgent request that I drop everything to take her shopping.

These trips often involved the pursuit of trivial items — shoes, a table lamp, frozen strawberries. Or scatter rugs: In any given year, my mother would acquire enough scatter rugs to cover every inch of the playing field at Fenway Park , including the bullpens.

....

Just over seven years ago, before Thanksgiving, we were getting into the car outside of a CVS when my mother said, “I think you should go ahead and do that story you’ve been talking about.”

“Really?”

“Yes,” she said. “Just go ahead and do it. And then we’ll have a party.”

She was talking about the story in which I would say that I am gay.

(I guess I’ve kind of buried the lead here, which, I admit, has been a common complaint about my writing over the years. But what the heck: The headline has already given away the story, and, anyway, what happened that day seven years ago is central to why I am writing today.)

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?&articleid=1307703&format=&page=1&listingType=col#articleFull
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 08:39 AM
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1. Very happy for him
He's a great guy and I have been a loyal reader for years.

Talked with him often at Red Sox games when I would see him when I used to live in MA.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 09:11 AM
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2. About the only thing of value in the Herald is his column. I'm sure Callahan is happy for him.
He does a great TV baseball show in season on Saturdays. I'm looking forward to it this year.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 09:22 AM
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3. K&R.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 09:44 AM
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4. Hopefully he's not a HomoCon or GOPride member
Good on you for coming out, Steve.
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