![]() I may have failed as a homophobe, but unfortunately, many people succeed. But, although it sounded good in theory, I wasn’t very hostile by temperament and I had trouble channeling my fictitious outrage into convincing practice. When I was eight years old, I figured that if I used the word “fag” a lot and on every possible occasion expressed my repugnance for gay people, others would obviously think I was straight. ![]() In fact, my earliest conscious tactic to hide my homosexuality involved being outlandishly homophobic. ![]() Since the third grade, I’d spent too many valuable cognitive resources concocting deceptive schemes to cover up the fact that I was gay. But the truth is that passing for a straight person had become more of a hassle than I figured it was worth. I wish I could say that I decided to come out of the closet in my early twenties for more admirable reasons-such as for love or the principle of the thing.
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