Growing up in a conservative Jewish household, singer and songwriter Ari Gold was taught that boys should act like stereotypical boys and that gay acts were a sin. This profoundly affected Ari and stayed with him through college, at which point he realized that he could never truly succeed as an artist unless he were honest to himself and others.

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