Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, cofounder of the It Gets Better Project, editorial director of the Stranger, and brother of Bill.
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Which is how I wound up at Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, a Catholic high school for boys who were thinking about becoming priests. The Chicago Archdiocese closed Quigley, which was located just south of the Viagra Triangle, in 2007. It was declining enrollment that did Quigley in. Because nowadays Catholic boys who want to live with men and play dress up have more and better options—like coming out and/or joining the marines.
So I was never a fully blown seminarian. I wasn’t even a briefly fondled one. (Catholic grade schools, Catholic high schools, altar boy, receptionist in rectory, and never once molested—forgive me, father, but what am I? Chopped liver?) But I was, when I showed up at Quigley on my first day of high school, very seriously thinking about the priesthood. That serious contemplation lasted, oh, about six weeks.
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