R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went - whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college - he found himself on the outside looking in. Eric redefines what it means to be an “other” through the lens of his own life experience. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, about accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election as well as the seismic change that came thereafter.

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