When President Obama was making his inaugural address, I was upstairs clearing out old papers and files in a back bedroom. In fact, I was sitting on the floor cross-legged and so immersed in the documents before me – documents from when I was married, before I came out – that I momentarily forgot about […]
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Homophobia Is Real (Ask My Mother)
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The other evening something remarkable happened. I learned that my mother had never heard of the word “homophobia,” and when I told her the definition, she actually went to the dictionary to see if I was telling her the truth. I had been talking with her on the phone about how important it is for […]
