My First Love

Episode 34: My First Love

In this episode, I open up about something unexpected that happened during Pride weekend I ran into my very first love, the man I haven’t seen in more than 20 years. He was my first boyfriend, my first taste of what it meant to love and be loved by another Black man, and he helped shape the way I understood relationships moving forward.

I share the story of who we were back then, why we broke up, and what it was like to sit across from him decades later as two very different men. I talk about the beauty and pain of loving someone when you’re young, the regrets and lessons that linger, and how sometimes, what doesn’t last as romance can come back as something just as powerful a lifelong friendship.