00:00In 1993, you chose to live your life openly and publicly, share that part of your truth,
00:05and I think some people in today's YouTube world don't realize what a different world it was.
00:11This could have been a career risk for you.
00:13Yeah, the risk was very palatable, but the reward of being myself, the thoughts, those nights of
00:19thinking, if I come out and people don't like me, then they really never liked my music. It didn't
00:24make sense to me. I thought that if people loved the music, then they would love the music, and
00:29I was willing to take that chance because I needed the health. I needed to be myself. It was just
00:34too
00:34hard to not be myself, and I did get quite a reward. It did not hurt my career at all.
00:40I was selling
00:40about a million records each record, and then after I came out, I sold seven, eight million records,
00:45so it was just fine. I still hear people say, boy, back in high school, you were the only other
00:50one
00:50I knew that was gay. It means a lot. I'm very proud of that. Backstage Pass, hosted by Gentry
00:57Thomas. Downloaded wherever you get your podcasts.
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