Evan and Addison Are Domestic Partners

And how about you, Addison?

AS: Um, what?

Growing up in Texas, being gay and shit.

AS: I thought I was pretty – I think I just thought I was asexual. I don’t know if I had it figured out.

EH: Tell us about your girlfriend.

You had girlfriends?

AS: I had a girlfriend in college for a little bit.

Was she pretty?

AS: Yeah. So, I had a friend in high school and we started to fool around once and I kind of freaked out because it was like “Oh my God”. I don’t know. I was freaking out, “I can’t do this. I’m asexual”.

EH: Yeah, that’s why Jesus was a good out for me: no sex until marriage. All you have to do is kiss a girl here and there.

AS: It’s obviously more complicated than that, but – I didn’t – when I jacked off and stuff, I would think about guys, but I’d think about girls, too. It was weird –

Do you have siblings?

AS: Yes. Two sisters. Let’s see – coming out. I didn’t really come out until I was in – or realized that I like men or I was sexually attracted to them until junior year of college, I guess, when I got my first boyfriend and it was all over after that. Seduced by a Colombian!

And how did you come out to your family?

AS: That was more recently. It was one of those things – I’ve worked in gay philanthropy for four years and I’ve always told my parents that’s what I did. I came out to my mom maybe five years ago, but it was several years after the fact. I was already living with my last boyfriend. It’s not that I thought she would react in any weird way. I think I just didn’t want to talk about it. I wanted to just talk about it when it at some point when it was just a foregone conclusion and it was just a ten minute conversation. I didn’t really say “Dad, I’m gay” until probably a year ago…

EH: It was around the same time that I told my dad.

AS: Like toward the beginning of last year? I came out to my dad around last April. Easter.

EH: Yeah.

AS: So, I think it was February when you did it.

EH: And how did your dad react?

AS: It was fine. The only thing that he’s weird on is when I was like, “Yeah, we’re planning on having kids one day, too”. He was just, “I don’t know. That’s too much, I don’t understand.”

Where are you going to get these kids?

AS: I don’t know. We haven’t – We could just be uncles or something, who knows?

You like kids?

AS: He wants to be a stay at home dad.

You’re the one who works in finance, you should be going to work!

EH: I have six nephews and they’re a blast and I can see myself doing that one day.