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Blue Angel

After coming out of the closet at 86, alumnus Forman Brown revealed he was the author of a groundbreaking novel about being young and gay at U-M.

We go around the world like a lot of sorry ghosts, being forever ashamed of a thing we’ve no reason to be ashamed of.

– Kurt Gray, from “Better Angel”

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