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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2015 Oct 26;63(5):601–632. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1111108
Walter: I always had a strong attraction towards guys, but I wasn't familiar with the word, with the term gay, with the label gay.
Daniel: When did that happen? When did you get familiar with it?
Walter: When I got into foster care. People would say, “Oh, you're gay. You're gay, you're so gay. You're a faggot this, queer that”.