# So Bruce Jener is LGBT - Who gives a F\*CK

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**Created:** [April 26, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bruce-jener-is-lgbt-who-gives-a-f-ck/718542 "2015-04-26T00:42:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bruce-jener-is-lgbt-who-gives-a-f-ck/718542/149 "2015-04-28T04:54:14Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> This.
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> Or, in my case, if just ONE person had come out in the early 60s. I came out in 1963, and as far as I knew I was the only openly gay person in the world.
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> It’s a lot easier to deal with things, if you know others have dealt with them, and survived. Bruce Jenner is just one, in a long line of transgendered folk. But he makes it a little easier for those who follow. There are parallels between his journey and that of a gay person, and if his story furthers understanding, it benefits us all.

Paul Lynn most certainly was “out”. And damn, he was funny.

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