It never came up verbally in any interviews, but it was out there, anyway. My feeling was that I didn't want to work in a place where I would have to feel like I needed to hide anything, or to wonder if I would encounter prejudice when my queerness came out. My feeling was that no job would be worth it if I couldn't openly be myself. Not All Men Are - When you are living in America at the end of the millennium, there are a lot of fads that come and go. Sadly, people also have the need to get a pet that is the latest fad.
Someone gets a pot-bellied piglet because they are unusual and cute.
A few months later the piglet grows up to an adult and the family is not happy with it for various reasons, such as it is too large, dangerous, or it doesn t match the new living room curtains. Many shelters do not have facilities to house ex-pet pigs. Fortunately there are kind gentlemen like Dale Riffle and Jim Brewer, who decided to take in the strays. In fact, in 1992 they purchased a small farm outside of Washington, DC, and founded PIGS a Sanctuary. From their web site, For the past eight years, PIGS a Sanctuary, has helped to place or provide a home to thousands of abused, abandoned and neglected pot-bellied pigs.