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Rory Michaels born September 29th 1971. Avid homosexual rights advocate; Rory F. Michaels started his life in suburban Portland, Oregon. According to his semi-auto biographical novel entitled “A Gay’s Gotta Do what a Gay’s Gotta Do” Rory realised from the age of seven that he was different from all of his friends. He wasn’t interested in cars or action figures but in flowers and how clocks work. He didn’t like aggressive sports like Football or Basketball but instead found pleasure in non contact sports like Tennis or Croquet. When he reached the age of nine his parents Richard and Patricia Michaels had begun to grow apart, the constant turbulence during this time had major effects on the young Rory as he told Late Night Show host Conan O’Brien in a 1998 interview. Finally in 1982 Richard and Patricia separated leaving Rory and older brother Craig (who would have a major effect on Rory’s life in the future…) to fend for their mother who after the divorce became depressed. Richard or “Red” as he was known moved out of home and into a house on South East 32nd St where he lived for the rest of his life with his soon to be wife Dianne Broderick. They had a child named Matthew James. In 1984 Rory attended Pacific Junior High. Here he was picked on by fellow students. In his book Rory reminisces about the days that would go by when the other students would throw their lunches at him for entertainment. His mother would ask why he had food stains on him but he would find excuses and lie to her. Over the next two years it dawned on Rory that while all of his classmates were getting girlfriends he was only interesting in being friends with girls. Indeed he had no male friends and no male authority figure. It was around this time that he started to realise he was gay. The moment of clarity was once in gym class when saw all the males getting changed and realised that he was mor e attracted to the male body than the female body. At first he was very scared; his mother was a devout Christian and he knew it was a mortal sin to be gay. But then some thing happened that changed Rory's life forever. His brother Craig came out as gay. This gave Rory the confidence to come out. At first he only told his close family. It was too much for his mother who disowned him so he had no choice but to go and live with his brother. Here he was exposed to some of his brother gay friends. He saw them looking so happy and normal that he believed it to be okay. The next day he came out publicly at his school. Never feeling so good about himself he held his head up high for the first time in his life. At lunch that day four boys came up to him and surrounded him. One held his arms while the other three beat him to a pulp. A teacher finally managed to pull to boys off him and then called an ambulance. He suffered a broken jaw and several busted ribs. This taught him one of the most important lessons of his life; people will single out any one who is different.