At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!
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Selling newspapers outside the grocery store for two years.
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View all 236 →In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
I’ve enjoyed every single job, including working at my dad’s chicken shop selling potato gems (fried potato circles) to the surfer dudes.
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View profile →If we went back to house phones and were a bit more disconnected.
Not giving up on myself. As a gay black man things are, at times, more difficult.
To my younger self for not being patient with myself, and for giving up on myself at times.
I cried this morning watching RuPaul’s Drag Race. I love seeing queens overcome challenges.
My son, Jason, because he has overcome so much and continues to keep a smile on his face, and I just love that.
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