while he was there, he wrote a column about how the world of sports was still very tough to navigate for gay people.

So that may have been part of it.īill has also worked as part of ESPN as well as the website for three years, 1999 to 2002. Bill also admits that this may have been due to the fact that he was sporting a mustache at the time and overall, it didn’t really suit him all that well. He says that the fact that his outfits were so free of fashion robbed him actually of quite a few dates. When he moved to Denver in 1996, he did not have the most fashionable wardrobe. He was worked for a truck driving school as a driver recruiter, a sales consultant, and a temp for an elevator company. Well, Bill did his best to prove them wrong and passed with flying colors as he held many different jobs during his time working in his early twenties and onward. He was also voted by his peers to be someone that was most likely to avoid the idea of doing ‘any real work’ in life.

He was a student that got mostly B’s during high school. The author’s parents were doomed to be disappointed in his abilities, which were confirmed when he made the lowest team at soccer camp. Expectations of him were high to do well in athletics.īill’s parents hoped that he would be a great soccer player. He is currently a writer but did not always have dreams of writing in his younger days, he wanted to be either a pro baseball player or a disc jockey or the Indian in the Village People. He is married to his husband and resides in Chandler, Arizona. Bill Konigsberg is an American author of fiction.

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg