Podcaster Danny Pellegrino on Sharing Stories of His Gay Life
Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino. But, he says, “I wanted to be open about my coming-out experience.”And he is brutally honest in his new memoir, How Do I Un-Remember This?
Unfortunately True Stories, in which he chronicles his childhood upbringing in Solon, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, and the challenges he experienced coming to terms with his sexuality“I didn’t want it to be all about my coming-out journey,” he adds. “Since I experienced plenty of other things as a kid from a small Ohio town.”It was important for Pellegrino to find humor in admittedly dark periods of his youth. “For example, as a young teen, someone in my school outed me, even though I didn’t realize I was gay,” he recalls. “And there was the time that I was at a girl friend’s house playing Cootie Catcher.
She asked me to sleep over, but before I did, her dad was hinting around if I was gay or not, and my friend just blurted out that I was, and I stormed out of the house.
I was 12 years old, and the thought of being gay, and especially if anyone thought I was gay, was absolutely terrifying.”Everything Iconic, Pellegrino’s podcast, is a pop-culture breakdown, and his guests have included celebrities Katie Couric, Rosie O’Donnell, Elizabeth Olsen, Andy Cohen, Dan Levy, Cameron Diaz, and Miss Piggy.
