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Dad: “It's like God put a pair of new glasses on me” By Jason Clark 4 October 2005 Bryan Olsen, a student at Emory University, is one of the young men and women featured in the cover article of the October 10 issue of Time magazine. When Bryan's Mormon family learned that he was gay, at age 15, they sent him to a boot camp for wayward teens in Ensenada, Mexico, where he suffered various kinds of abuse. "I could only come home when I wrote my parents and promised to be straight and Mormon," says Bryan, who today is 21. To this day the reconciliation is not complete. Without financial support from his parents, Bryan is completing his college education with the support of the Point Foundation. But Bryan and his partner Kyle are welcome for dinner at Bryan's parents's home in Woodstock, Ga. "I don't believe that men should be together," says Bryan's father. "but I love him as my son. And he and his partner are good boys." "It's like God put a pair of new glasses on me… I thought I could talk him out of [being gay]. But it's not something you can talk someone out of."
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