John Barrowman, The Making of Me (2008)
I’m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I’ll probably fail, but here goes: John’s very secure in his sexuality. He’s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears that if he’d stayed in a country where homosexuality was illegal for most of the first part of his life, that he wouldn’t have survived.
And that’s why equal rights are so important.
What you said, that’s absolutely heartbreaking.
And I want to hug him even more than usual.
That’s the most… terrible thing. Considering that I was born in Scotland a while obviously after him this makes me feel incredibly sick that something like this happened. No one should still fear what could have happened when they were younger and just the fact of homosexuality being illegal is just… I just don’t understand! How could it be considered a weakness. Poor John considering how comfortable he is you would never have quite realised what could have happened when he was small 🙁 I agree though this is why equal rights are so important.