Coming Out as Straight Is Harder Than You Think

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Coming Out as Straight Is Harder Than You Think

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nate-warden/coming-out-as-straight-is_b_8037710.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/By Nate Warden  09/16/2015

"Cecilio, or Cecil for short, is a friend of mine from Toronto. He's an artist at heart, but with a mind for projects that stand to make a difference, like his current documentary production, LatinX. He's well-dressed, a wonderful lunch date and he also happens to be a trans man. As such, his experience as a member of the LGBTQ community is different than most that I encounter as a gay man.

You see, for me and many of my friends, the experience of coming out is one of brazen disruption. We struggle with the social constructs of hetero-normative society, a system that works well for most people but not us. Sometimes it's a short struggle and sometimes it takes decades, but the coming out process is inevitably the same. "Mom, dad, I'm gay," we sputter after mustering the necessary courage. It's a way of saying, "I'm different. I see the world differently than you. This is me.""