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Zack Wickham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
832 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

It was Samir and I, my, well, this story has been out there. So I'm not mom and dad, you already know this, but my best friends, Kayla, Colleen and Hope, we all turned 18. It was right before Thanksgiving, like the day before Thanksgiving of our senior year, her parents. So we're like, oh, let's have one drink. And so her parents like, let us have one drink.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

It was Samir and I, my, well, this story has been out there. So I'm not mom and dad, you already know this, but my best friends, Kayla, Colleen and Hope, we all turned 18. It was right before Thanksgiving, like the day before Thanksgiving of our senior year, her parents. So we're like, oh, let's have one drink. And so her parents like, let us have one drink.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

And then, and then it just kind of spiraled and I got drunk for the first

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

And then, and then it just kind of spiraled and I got drunk for the first

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Had you also, can I say how much I love it? How you say Smirnoff? How do you say it? Smirnoff. Smirnoff. Smear. Smear. There's no C8. Okay, I'm sorry. No, I just love the way you say it. It's funny.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Had you also, can I say how much I love it? How you say Smirnoff? How do you say it? Smirnoff. Smirnoff. Smear. Smear. There's no C8. Okay, I'm sorry. No, I just love the way you say it. It's funny.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Am I seeing you out for the rest of the time?

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Am I seeing you out for the rest of the time?

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

No, I didn't. I came out when I was still 18, but not... I came out to a girl that I just met. The first time was like maybe December. So I still hadn't come out yet.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

No, I didn't. I came out when I was still 18, but not... I came out to a girl that I just met. The first time was like maybe December. So I still hadn't come out yet.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

But, um, I had some inklings, you know, there was some, there's some, there was some red flags in my, in my own psyche where I was like, maybe you're gay.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

But, um, I had some inklings, you know, there was some, there's some, there was some red flags in my, in my own psyche where I was like, maybe you're gay.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

No. Okay. No. Mine was very undercompensating. I was like, no, I'm definitely gay.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

No. Okay. No. Mine was very undercompensating. I was like, no, I'm definitely gay.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Yeah, like, it's funny because if we didn't have the way society says, like, oh, you're... Like, what girl do you like? And it pushes you into these lanes. If people just listened to their kids or said, oh, like, the choices... I would have been gay at five. Like I knew I liked boys right off the bat. Yeah. Like boys were so much more interesting to me.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Yeah, like, it's funny because if we didn't have the way society says, like, oh, you're... Like, what girl do you like? And it pushes you into these lanes. If people just listened to their kids or said, oh, like, the choices... I would have been gay at five. Like I knew I liked boys right off the bat. Yeah. Like boys were so much more interesting to me.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

What's crazy is my family is the most supportive, caring part of the community. My dad, when he was at Humana, which is where he worked, he was part of the... I don't even know what they call it. The work group for the LGBT... He was always involved. My mom was involved with the LGBT group on our college campus once I came out. They were super open, super whatever. However...

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

What's crazy is my family is the most supportive, caring part of the community. My dad, when he was at Humana, which is where he worked, he was part of the... I don't even know what they call it. The work group for the LGBT... He was always involved. My mom was involved with the LGBT group on our college campus once I came out. They were super open, super whatever. However...

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Besides Will and Grace being the only thing our family had ever talked about being gay or like seeing a gay portrayal.

Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz
Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham

Besides Will and Grace being the only thing our family had ever talked about being gay or like seeing a gay portrayal.