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Sewers of Paris: Something from Another Planet - (Ep. 244 - David Bowie/Orlando Ortega Medina)
🕑 Added 2019-07-25 13:00:03 +0000 UTCMy guest this week is musician-turned-novelist Orlando Ortega Medina. Growing up in the music scene in and around Los Angeles, he was never really in the closet — or at least, he didn’t think of himself as closeted, until he realized that his own parents didn’t fully understand that he was married to a man. Explaining to his mother that she had a son in law wasn’t exactly comfortable, but it changed everything for his relationship with his parents. And he processed the experience in the way he knew best — by turning it into a novel.
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