Troy Hallisey has a story to share about coming out, fraternity life, addiction, and true love that you don’t see everyday. Hell, we’re already salivating over the potential for a movie version.
I’m From Driftwood sat down with Hallisey for his story about love found, tested, and reborn. The open and honest talk about addiction and relapsing is particularly relevant.
Hallisey reconnected with fraternity brother Henry who had since come out, and the two began a relationship. After dating for a few months, Henry’s addiction became more obvious:
“After a couple months of dating though, I realized something was going on. He started to not look well again, kind of like how he did when we were in college and it was becoming just really obvious that he had relapsed.”
Hallisey’s story is worth a watch, not only because it’s romantic, but because addiction in the gay community isn’t spoken about frequently enough.
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money718
Wow…they are not attractive.
Josh447
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Jonty Coppersmith
@money718: Attractive is in the eye of the beholder. A good person with a good heart can be attractive even if he/she is not what one would consider to be physically beautiful. A person’s worth is comprised of so much more than physical beauty.
nitejonboy
@money718: I’m sorry I wasn’t aware it was a requirement that one must be stereotypically gorgeous to be gay. You are a shallow troll. And this story is about overcoming addiction and finding love,not looks. You want looks, watch porn. It’s people like you that give the gay community it’s bad name.Gays come in all shapes and sizes, we aren’t here to please you.
Magnus
@money718: You exemplify everything that is wrong with the gay community. You give us a bad name by perpetuating the stereotype that all gay men are superficial flakes who don’t value anything below the surface. You make us all look like empty headed morons who only want to get off in life. You bring shame to the gay community. Grow up and comment on the substance of the article, or is that above your caliber of thinking?
BigG
Beautiful story. He stuck it out with his partner and love prevailed. Addiction in the gay community is out of control. Coming out of it sober is a rarity in our community. Alcohol and drugs are everywhere. But there is a big sober gay community awaiting you when you decide to quit. Love this story.
Glücklich
@BigG:
Is this that sober community?
http://www.theonion.com/video/aa-destroying-the-social-lives-of-thousands-of-onc-18349
Amaurys Arias
Ok, when is this movie coming out?!
Desert Boy
A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!
MichaeltheGreat40
Day-um….dat’s 6 minutes and 55 seconds of my life that are lost forever and that I will never get back…
SnakeyJ
i agree with most of the posters… this is not interesting. the guy is relaying the story like it’s something different or interesting. it’s not. it’s standard. it’s average. maybe that’s what people need to hear? i don’t know. i don’t know when every boring nuance of everyone’s story is supposed to be something to make us go “wow”. I guess everyone is special.
money718
@Magnus: Wow! Didn’t know I had that much power within the gay community. I guess with “great power, comes great responsiblity.” Give me a break.
Tracy Pope
@SnakeyJ: Everyone IS special – just like everyone else.
@Glücklich: Perfect
Seriously; good to know he found love. I do wish him all the best because sometimes love isn’t enough when it involves an addict.
stanhope
@Magnus: I disagree. He doesn’t make “us” look like anything. He makes himself look like the likely lonely superficial person HE is. He doesn’t reflect on me or anyone else gay….just himself and those like him. The story is a beautiful one and not diminished at all by people like that.
stanhope
@money718: @money718: LMAO you got it wrong……it is rather in your case, often with great stupidity come great ego.
Chris
It’s a story of love and perseverance through whatever life throws at us. It brought a smile to my face.
Larry
The money idiot above just wants attention and you guys are giving it to him. REFUSE to comment to trolls and people with no brains. Just Flag them.
Steven
This guy has a nice story but BOY he’s not a good story teller! Way too much details. This should have been edited to about half the time.
Sand Nierenberg
To eachother lol
NoCagada
@money718: Well, SOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYY!!!
KILL THEM NOW!
Evidently, you are the paragon of human perfection. At some time in your life, you may want to grow up.
Michael Miller
Frats are pointless. Have been there. You hope to have friends, but you only end up meeting more jerks for a once-weekly meeting.
Nuno Lapirdo
Will
robho3
ZZZZZZZZZZ omg I fell asleep listening to him.
Navalator
Money 718 is moron. Ignore him. He is shallow and ignorant.