DJ Louie XIV, who has spent years mixing music for a hyper-masculine crowd, talks about struggling with the shame and hiding that followed him out of the closet and how that has shaped everything in his life, from intimate relationships with other men to owning his path as an artist, as well as imagining his life was a TV show to writing and producing his own.

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