Colonie will now recognize LGBT Pride month because of this one man – Times Union

Colonie will now recognize LGBT Pride month because of this one man  Times Union

COLONIE – When Mark McCauslin went to his first Pride parade in Albany 15 years ago, he was nervous about who would see him there. Growing up in Colonie, McCauslin, now 33, said homosexuality wasn’t talked about. A neighbor near his childhood home off of Central Avenue whispered about the gay couple who lived on the street. At Colonie High, he knew one openly gay student who he said was passive aggressively bullied, and even after McCauslin discovered his sexuality, he didn’t tell that fellow student. McCauslin finally came out to his close friends his senior year of high school and then hi…