Such truth in your words! We live in a paternalistic society whose underpinnings many of us don’t fully appreciate.

Challenging them makes us vulnerable and requires great courage.

Coming out for me, as a gay man, is something I have to do constantly. Have to decide to do constantly. Consciously.

I have to to say what I know means in many minds, “I am less than a full man. I am not the member of the patriarchy you took me for.”

But unless I find that courage part of me festers inside.