The Dark Side Of Coming Out
4 min readOct 13, 2021
It recently dawned on me that I would be spending this year’s National Coming Out Day in the small town where I first came out 30 years earlier. Given it is a place linked to all sorts of trauma related to being queer, the topic of coming out has been occupying center stage in my thoughts of late, for better and for worse.
The fact is, of course, that “coming out” isn’t just one thing. It isn’t experienced by…