From as
early as Brett Krutzsch can remember, his
mom did things with him she
didn’t do with his brothers, and that is why he is convinced that she decided to create a gay son. Every afternoon when he got home from elementary school, he jumped off the bottom step of the school bus, ran up his family’s lawn, and met his mom at the front door. His mom would take his backpack, hand him a snack, and lead him into the
living room, where ‘The Guiding Light’ was about to start.
They were surrounded by middle-class Americans who tried to live like the wealthy, and his mom, who was incredibly frugal, didn’t want him living in a fantasy world.
He and his mom would be in their living room, in front of the television,
doing their high kicks, choreographed steps, and a deep-breathing cooldown.
Starting in the fourth grade, Monday nights became another special treat because his mom let him stay up past his bedtime to watch Designing Women.
In one episode, Julia beautifully
sang the hymn “How Great Thou Art.” The next day, his mom went out and bought the sheet music to the song. But by the time he was 11, his mom drove him to The Young Actor’s Studio, where he
took acting classes. During those car rides, his mom played her Barbra Streisand — Greatest Hits tape, and they sang along to all the songs.
What he thinks is that his mom took note of the things he enjoyed doing from a very early age and let him, as one of her favorite authors, Joseph Campbell, would say, “follow my bliss.” She recognized that he hated playing contact sports and that he had no interest in sitting around with “the guys” watching “the game,” so she never made him do those things.
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