ONE OF MY MANY, MANY HATS!
ED GALLAGHER, an offensive lineman for the University of Pittsburgh from 1977-79, tried to commit suicide by jumping from a damn 12 days after his first sexual encounter with another man. He survived but was left a paraplegic. Gallagher said that before his suicide attempt he had become unable to reconcile his image of himself as an athlete with gay urges. He later admitted that the incident forced him to come to grips with his sexuality. “I WAS MORE EMOTIONALLY PARALYZED THEN, THAN I AM PHYSICALLY NOW.”
PAUL SAGAN told me there was more to the WOODY GUTHRIE quote: “I fully aim to get my soul known again/As the maniac, the saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker,the queer/ I am the works, the whole works/ And it’s not ’till you have called me all of those things/ That I feel satisfied, I feel satisfied.”