An Evening with Bernhard Ruchti

July 24, 2010

“I was born in Berkeley in 1974. My parents are both Swiss and my father had a research assistant position at UC Berkeley. When I was about three years old, we returned to Switzerland, where I grew up.

At the age of 15 or 16, I joined a spiritual group that was engaged in anthroposophical ideas. A pretty complex story…. About the same time, I began to discover that I am gay. But, under the influence of spiritual ideologies, I was not able to accept that fact. I tried to live as a straight man, and, at the age of 28 I even married.”