Steve Basile
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Thank you.
This was at first just intriguing and interesting, then ultimately, profoundly and deeply moving. My early childhood friendships quite literally changed my life, and I recall those times as if they were yesterday rather than almost 50 years ago. We are damaging our young men by depriving them of this vital support.
Unlike most boys, I WAS trying to be something I was not (heterosexual) but my friendships, almost all utterly platonic, helped me learn who I was, and who I loved. Mike, Sammy, Brian, Jimmy T (we learned years later we shared the same secret) and especially Joey: I loved you all, and still do.

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    Steve Basile is an ex-New Yorker, former tech executive turned Irish Publican, happily blue in a red state.