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Zack Wickham

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284 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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.

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

Well, and it broke her career for a while. Yeah. You know, when she decided to do that... and be so brave. Like she lost her career for many years.

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

Well, and it broke her career for a while. Yeah. You know, when she decided to do that... and be so brave. Like she lost her career for many years.

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

Yeah. And, and it, it took her a while to recover. And then after Ellen and I don't remember what year that was, but then until willing grace was on in 1998 was when it premiered, there wasn't like that, you know, there was like queer as folk and some other things, but they were on like HBO or Showtime or, you know, Oh, my God. Do you remember on HBO Taxi Confessionals? Taxicab Confessions.

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

Yeah. And, and it, it took her a while to recover. And then after Ellen and I don't remember what year that was, but then until willing grace was on in 1998 was when it premiered, there wasn't like that, you know, there was like queer as folk and some other things, but they were on like HBO or Showtime or, you know, Oh, my God. Do you remember on HBO Taxi Confessionals? Taxicab Confessions.

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

Oh, my God. Now, that was a sexual awakening. It was called like real sex, blah, blah, blah. Like 71 or whatever. They always had a dick somewhere and I'd never seen them in the wild before.

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

Oh, my God. Now, that was a sexual awakening. It was called like real sex, blah, blah, blah. Like 71 or whatever. They always had a dick somewhere and I'd never seen them in the wild before.

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

Oh my God.

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

Oh my God.