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Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywo | dG1feVdnUlpxRk5UZ3M
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00:00from a young age i knew i was different carl what is your dream well i just want to say
00:22this album is like probably motel's most revolutionary single since what's going on
00:27it's a great song it was an anthem for the lgbtq plus community you know weird enough i don't know
00:34much about carl b there were so many other things he was able to do in his lifetime i knew my gig
00:43was to be a change agent in our society this is a new disease that started off within the male
00:51homosexual population what carl did not just as a singer but as an activist is very special
00:59i truly believe in the love ethic that is the thing that got me through all of the hell
01:11it was horrible we were all scared it was a very scary time for us he was the first to stand up and
01:17say this is not okay we in los angeles have set up the definitive black program dealing with the
01:25aids crisis the black community has changed because of carby you know i heard that he might have started
01:33a church or something like that oh i like that god is love churches in the black community were saying
01:42the homosexuals were gonna burn in hell's fire and i'm coming to different conclusions here they
01:49didn't even know what homosexuality was they thought everybody was straight and every now and then you
01:54acted peculiar so you have to challenge this book all right let us pray he provided for us an escape from
02:03homophobia from prejudice my motto was god is love and love is for everyone he was the first to stand up
02:16and say i was born this way i was born this way i was born this way it's it's an anthem and anthems never die
02:33i was born this way
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