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Pries, an out gay Chicagoan, became CP: I was growing up in Texas in a strictly religious organization provide confidence in your ability to be a an Eagle Scout in the late ’80s. Today he feels that household, so I would say that, yes I knew. But I didn’t success, to be a leader regardless of the circumstances page 6 Scouts gave him the confidence to be himself, part of really fully understand. I didn’t know other gay people. that you may be presented. One of that last things that what made it easier for him to come out later. It was a different time and place. I did was I was involved in scouting was I led an expe- Windy City Times caught up with Pries to talk about WCT: When were you were a Boy Scout, how signifi- dition of a troop of scouts on a high adventure trip. It his scouting days and his thoughts on BSA ban on gay cant was that ban? Was it something that everyone was a 50-mile hike, over a period of about five days in scouts. 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