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Meet a Gay Man With Down Syndrome Who Doesn’t Let Labels Define Him

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In the video below, Mic editor Elizabeth Plank talks with Paul, a young man from Brooklyn, who has Down syndrome and also happens to be gay. He and his mother discuss with Plank the way the word “gay” is used pejoratively in a similar way to the “R” word and the harmful effect these words can have on people.

“I am homosexual,” Paul says in the video below, “and I feel fabulous about it.”


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Norm DeLisle

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