Overcoming Homophobia to Sing My Truth

LGBTQIA+
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Jeremy Dion
October 18, 2024
Rainbow Rodeo
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For the first time ever, I played the Rainbow Room at the Folk Alliance International this year. Performing as an openly gay man might not seem like a big deal for a professional musician and therapist, but it is to me. After years of self work and acceptance, being out as queer in public still makes me really uncomfortable. So I avoided it. Until now.

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