Chris Appleton on coming out after fathering two kids: “I thought I had it all figured out”

I think coming out later on in life–I was 26–was incredibly difficult because I had two kids, I had a partner I’d been with for nine years, I thought I had it all figured out. Everybody else also thought I had it figured out. So, when you’re all of a sudden then changing the record, people are like: ‘Well, you must have always known,’ and I didn’t realize I did.

I was bullied quite a bit at school, and people used to say I was gay because I did hair. I never was too focused on sexuality, but people at school always mentioned it, and, as a kid, you just don’t ever want to be different. I already felt different because I was dyslexic.

I was, I

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