Silas Turner

Silas spent his senior year of high school trying to raise his GPA, forget about Alex, and cling a little harder to Bex and her new baby, leading him to Stanford U, which was somewhat local. He studied Theater and Communication and dabbled in relationships, but nothing serious.

By the time he graduated, he was sick of school and school life but still not sure if he should take the easier path his father had paved before him as a lawyer or something that called to to him on a deeper level. He took a gap year off, financed by his generous parents, and spent months with his cousins in Morocco and traveling through other parts of Africa and Europe.

Arriving at something of a compromise, he decided to go to law school after all, but at NYU, in the heart of Greenwich Village, where theater and gay community is strong. He LOVES it. And soon he met and fell for an actor/delivery guy named Ethan, who unbeknownst to them both, was HIV positive.

By Silas' second year of law school, they'd moved in together and Ethan started getting sick, deteriorating quickly before passing away about halfway through Silas' third and final year at NYU. It was ROUGH. After a breakdown and existential crisis that followed, Silas barely finished out the year (spring'95), somehow passed the bar exam, and to his father's dismay, threw away a chance to work at a top law firm. Instead, he recently took a much lower-paying job as a staff associate attorney at a civil rights non-profit where he hopes to help other people avoid some of the dehumanizing discrimination that Ethan couldn't.

After trying to get Bex to come to NYC for years, he's delighted that she's finally here and deeply relieved to not be living alone. Though still brittle after this past year, in his better moments he's looking forward to being the best ever godfather, to proving himself at work, and to rediscovering NYC anew.

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 * Regular email: Silas_Turner@aol.com

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