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The Road Now Token
ing inside because of the dishonesty. I was
a counterfeit person.”
Eventually Frye felt he had to confess
his “sins.”
“I reached a point that I knew I had to
tell someone in order to save my life,” said
By BYRON BECK
Frye. “[That’s when] I came out to the first
“Three hundred, do I hear 300 dollars?” person ever: my wife.”
said the auctioneer.
Together for 17 years, with four chil
Several paddles inched their way high dren, Frye said he and his wife approached
above a jam-packed crowd that had gath homosexuality as a “disease.” Determined
ered in a Northwest Portland loft to support to cure his “cancer,” they sought out sup
the Pixie Project, a nonprofit organization port groups—his form of what he called
that finds homes for neglected animals. The “chemotherapy.”
particular item being auctioned off that
“I joined a support group, through my
night was a one-of-a-kind opportunity— church, where men of all ages were dealing
the naming rights to a street in Longview, with same-sex attraction,” said Frye. “But
Wash. The high bidder could call it whatever the more groups I attended the more I real
they wanted.
ized being gay doesn’t go away.”
After furious bidding, a winner was an
During this trying time, he was build
nounced. It was Dr. Raymond Frye.
ing a booming dental practice, with several
By the time the dentist lowered his locations in Southwest Washington and a
paddle, Frye—also known as “Dr. Bling” for million-dollar bottom line.
his silver-hued, built-in massaging dental
That was all about to change.
chairs, Las Vegas-style office, and penchant
“My [wife] called my business partners
for working on the pearly whites of porn and told them about me,” said Frye. In the
stars—already knew what he wanted to call summer of 2008, at a coffeehouse in Van
his “road”: Thanksgiving Lane.
couver, Wash., Frye said his business part
But that’s getting ahead of the good ners—two of whom he considered his very
doc’s story.
best friends—handed him a letter saying he
“My earliest memory of being gay was could never return to the company he had
when I was 5 in the bushes at church, mess founded, nor the patients he’d known for the
ing around with the bishop’s son,” said Frye past 10 years.
over drinks in a quiet bar across the street
“One of my former partners wrote in a
from his Pearl District dental office. “But I legal declaration that it would be ‘profes
actively resisted those feelings.”
sional suicide’to be associated with me,” said
In fact, Frye thought he could overcome Frye. “My head was spinning, and I felt I
being gay.
was completely alone.”
“I wouldn’t even tell God,” Frye said.
Not all was lost for Frye, who eventually
Born and raised in “sinful” Las Vegas, reached a settlement with his former part
Frye, 42, waited until the age of 19 to ners allowing him to move forward with his
fully commit to his Mormon faith. He life and his career.
went on his mission at the age of 20 and
“In spite of all the horrible things that
married his wife not too long after that. have been done to me,” said Frye, “there
“I am a strongwilled individual and did are a lot of amazing things have hap
not want to accept who I was inside. But, pened, too.”
as the years went by, the feelings became
Like meeting his new best friend, who
stronger. I began to fear if I’d be able to also happens to be his partner, Troy Lakey.
stay the course of a straight life. I was dy- Although the two had met online, it wasn’t
Raymond Frye, a.k.a.
Dr. Bling, has plenty
to smile about
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