Confessions Of A Down Low Man: Making It A Family Affair

May 9, 2008

Continued from You Going To Answer That?

Let’s get something straight right now. When something is not right, and I get this nagging gut feeling about someone I am with, I follow that instinct. The thought just doesn’t appear out of nowhere.

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Confessions Of A Down Low Man: You Going To Answer That?

May 8, 2008

Continued from Stranger At My Door

Now that I have your attention – I hope you didn’t think I was just going to penetrate you long, hard, and deep without dropping some knowledge and inspiration on you. I really do hope you get to know me a little better than that.

Don’t worry I am going to get back to the tall, handsome – No! FINE, good-loving specimen of a professional athlete named Preston. But, first I want to make sure you all understand something. It’s important that everyone reading this is clear about a few things.

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Confessions Of A Down Low Man: Stranger At My Door

May 7, 2008

Continued from Hide & Seek - 'He Was Nowhere To be Found'

I couldn’t get Preston out of my head that night. I tossed and turned. Reliving every moment we shared in the club. The next day, no, the next night, couldn’t get here fast enough. Hurry, hurry, hurry. I needed to see him.

Sure enough the next night. He was there. This time he spotted me and quickly came over. He introduced himself again. ‘Preston’ he said. I smiled from ear to ear.
Preston’s large thick hands cupped mine. His touch was energetic. I felt a shock in my groin.

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Hide & Seek - 'He Was Nowhere To Be Found'

May 5, 2008

Ladies and Gentleman, allow me to introduce myself – my name is Terrance Dean and I am the author of the upcoming book, “Hiding In Hip Hop….On The Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood.” It is a memoir of my life as a down low/gay man in the entertainment industry.

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The End Is Only The Beginning

March 31, 2008

Continued from 360 Degrees: Who Says You Can't Go Home Again?

BD had accused me of anything he could think of in his certification to the court. We both had to write up letters summarizing our cases and his was complete fiction.

He was asking for sole custody of our son, saying that my parenting would be “detrimental” to our child. I was furious. It was a feeling I still wish I could have felt about a year and a half earlier.

I think back on some of those events and it all too surreal, like it was somebody else going through all that. I can’t even imagine it being me. How could it have been me? People who know me insist I wasn’t myself at the time.

“It was like you were somebody else,” a friend told me. That sentiment was echoed by others.

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