The One Where I Hide in Plain Sight

Or: Kind of gay, but not too gay

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

(Author’s Note: There is some strong sexual and racial language in this piece. I don’t usually use that kind of thing in my writing, but I’m quoting someone else, and I’m not going to try to make it sound better than it was. It was awful.)

When I was 28 and my sister, Kitty, was 21, she said, during a random conversation…