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Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.  

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Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinctxy magazineWindy City Times, Q Northeast, MetrolandcommUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology’. He contributed to Michael Breyette’s ‘Summer Moved On’ and ‘Illustrated Men.’ He has been profiled in UnzippedGenreDiversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine and has worked with photographers Steven Underhill and Dennis Dean. From 2008 through 2012, Ilagan was the Gallery Manager at the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region in Albany, NY. In 2008 he was voted ‘Best Dressed Man in the Capital Region’ by the readers of the Times Union. He has lived with his partner Andy since 2000. They were married in Boston, MA in May 2010, and remain happily unburdened by children.