JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid

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• JD Vance wrote in "Hillbilly Elegy" that he once became convinced  he was gay when he was a kid.
• "The only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women," he wrote.
• His grandmother quickly put that notion to rest, asking him: "JD, do you want to suck dicks?"

According to Sen. JD Vance's best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy," the Ohio senator...