VEGAS INC Editor Recalls Coming Out to His Cuban Mom
Just a few short months after helping launch VEGAS INC magazine, editor-in-chief Richard Pérez-Feria (pictured) has shared a most unusual and colorful masthead remembrance. In a July 18 missive titled “Letter from the Editor: ‘Mom, I’m Gay’,” he recounts how he finally came out to his mother in 2006, when he was editor of the Spanish language edition of People.
At the time, Pérez-Feria was living openly as a gay man in New York City, but somehow – to the disbelief of his friends – mom still hadn’t caught on.
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