Barry says we all need a gay friend. “I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren’t out who became one of my favorite professors,” he said on a recent podcast episode of “IMO” with Michelle Obama.
“You need that to show empathy and kindness […] you need that person in your friend group […] if you have a boy who is gay or nonbinary, they have somebody that can go ‘Okay, I’m not alone in this.'” he added.
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