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Podcast: Allusions: LGBTQ Writing
Episode: Edward Cleaves - Kind Soul, Closet Maniac (Explicit)
Description: Kind Soul Closet Maniac is about a scared white kid Growing up in abject poverty in the ghetto of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Raised by “black out” alcoholic parents. Trying to navigate the violence, fear and child abuse put upon him and his siblings by abusive, malicious people. Finally escaping that situation only due to the house burning down and killing his mother. He went to live with a sibling in an all-white neighborhood but the violence at home was the same.He escaped it all at around 16 and he tried to navigate life completely through trial and erro...