We love coming out - except when we hate it. We love reminiscing on and celebrating our past acts of daring. Coming out is how we discovered both community and freedom. It's how we found both love and a life.
Most campaigns avoid coming out, way out.
The challenge of being out has turned us inward before. Look around our community. We draw 200,000 to a pride parade to celebrate, yet only a relative handful to political campaigns to safeguard our rights. But relying on refuges is a risky strategy. It suggests to our opponents that the rest of the world is theirs, and it leaves us vulnerable to political attack.