Wonderful. I'm still figuring things out at a very late stage... and I feel for the young people nowadays in this crazier world. Let's hope this (hopefully soon ended) era will "slingshot" America to a freer, more open and accepting society.
Love this piece Matt. The line “Coming out was never supposed to be an act of bravery. It was supposed to be ordinary” made me stop and think about how true that is. We often think about how traumatic coming out was for those of us that are 40+. This piece gave me both pause and hope. Keep writing.
Also if you want a story about coming out, I just published mine. I’m new here so still trying to find my writing style.
Wonderful. I'm still figuring things out at a very late stage... and I feel for the young people nowadays in this crazier world. Let's hope this (hopefully soon ended) era will "slingshot" America to a freer, more open and accepting society.
Thanks for this piece. It helps in today’s world that young members of our community know folks like you have their backs.
absolutely! We new visibility of existence and happiness AND actual advocacy to kept pushing us all forward.
Love this piece Matt. The line “Coming out was never supposed to be an act of bravery. It was supposed to be ordinary” made me stop and think about how true that is. We often think about how traumatic coming out was for those of us that are 40+. This piece gave me both pause and hope. Keep writing.
Also if you want a story about coming out, I just published mine. I’m new here so still trying to find my writing style.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pesosandpixels/p/nothing-says-im-gay-now-like-a-coke?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I'm happy it resonated, it reminds us how we're all likely more similar than different. Thanks for sharing your story, I will read it today!
Agreed. It’s one of the things about the queer community. We all have some kind of “coming out story”. I always like hearing peoples’