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22 hours agoI'm 35, recently divorced, & living with my parents again. Am I a total failure? - Queerty
Divorce reflects changing circumstances and evolving needs, not moral failure or broken promises made in good faith.
Devout looks at the years that followed from a more personal perspective. The memoir traces Archuleta's upbringing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the expectations placed on him as both a rising star and a devoted member of his faith, and the internal conflict that grew as he struggled to reconcile those pressures with his sexuality.
"The first thought I had was, 'Wow, I sound really gay', he said. 'And then I thought, I am gay. What's wrong with sounding gay?' This, he explained, led him onto 'gay voice'. He opined that 'if you're in the gay community, you are on the spectrum of gay voice. Everybody's on the spectrum.' Placing himself as a 'moderate gay voice person,' Jackson said he'd spent years being 'very afraid to come across as gay.'"