Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Rich Dewberry exchanged his cell phone for a new one at a Best Buy store in Aurora, Colo. By the time he got home, someone had used his old phone to update his Facebook account. “I am gay. I’m coming out,” the post read. “Calls started coming in immediately to my house phone,” Dewberry said. “Friends, ex-spouses, they were all calling.” Dewberry, 39, says he is not gay, but it has been a year now, and he’s still getting questions. He has thus retained a lawyer. “My reputation has been tarnished and they’re responsible for it,” he says. “It just put a bad taste in my mouth.” (RC/Denver Post, KMGH Denver) ...Wait: I thought he said he wasn’t gay?Author’s Note: An upset reader claimed the tagline was “gay baiting.” I responded in my blog: https://thisistrue.com/gaybaiting/
Original Publication Date: 03 June 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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