'The Upshaws' star Jermelle Simon comes out as gay in empowering video: "I have decided that I am enough" - Queerty
Briefly

"Thank you for providing a space where I can come on the internet and say I am a Black gay man."
"I have decided that I am enough, I want to thank everyone who has helped me to get to that place where I feel seen, where I feel like I belong, where I feel loved."
"I've decided to embrace myself fully, all the parts of me. I've decided to love myself unconditionally. I've decided that the one thing that I thought was the biggest curse in my life is actually the biggest blessing I could ever receive."
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live and life at all."
Read at Queerty
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