Sean Hotchkiss

I had no idea how much it would change me.

Around my dad and my drinking buddies, I learned to ignore my feelings. Then I discovered how to connect with men in a way I never could before.

When the author hit rock bottom four years ago, the only thing left to treat was his soul. It’s a journey more and more of us are beginning.

Twenty-five years after a chance encounter in a middle school bathroom humiliated him, revisiting the episode—and his tormentor—changed the course of the author's life.