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Kathy Griffin’s Show Features a Gay Mormon Homeless Youth Nathan’s Ward Had Contributed to Proposition 8
Nathan, a homeless gay young man from a Mormon background, was featured on comedian Kathy Griffin’s show My Life on the D-List. The show aired on Bravo on July 27. Nathan lived in sleazy hotels before finding a program for homeless youth run by The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Griffin asked Nathan and other gay homeless youth what impact Prop 8 had in their lives. “My parents are Mormon,” said Nathan, “so I knew a lot of people from my church back home were donating money to this. It was kind of one of those things where I was like, “Wow, first my parents are telling me I can’t even be gay or get married, and now the government is saying that.” “They [claim they] care for the children,” added Trevor, another resident, “but they have no documentation of what happens to children who [grow] in gay married-couple families.” “If you could say one thing to that person who voted for Prop 8, meaning against gay marriage, what would you say to them?” Griffin asked the group. In an ironic tone, Nathan replied: “I think I’d say to them, ‘Thank you for denying me the right to marry whomever I love.’”
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