coming out of the closet

Just because you aren’t parading in public this month, or belting out your favorite queer anthem at a gay bar at 2 am, doesn’t mean you can’t feel Pride or celebrate it in your own way.

Smith complains about gay stereotypes and being the “token gay” in the workplace. It sounds a lot like Roger Ailes and Smith’s former co-workers at Fox News that he once supported are the culprits.

It’s another closet built of shame: “Please, please, please don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine. I don’t want my friends to know.”

Some wounds last a lifetime – and so many of us are wounded.