I can't describe how wonderful that makes me feel!
At age 65, it boggles my mind to see such acceptance in the entertainment world. It was a radically different world when I was a kid. When I was 5, I got caught playing dress-up with a neighbor girl by the girl's mother, and I was beaten, kicked, screamed at and threatened with death by her mother if she ever caught me doing that again, so I learned at a very young age to not let anyone know about my apparently terrible secret. My father repeatedly angrily told me as I grew up that if I'd been a kid in his neighborhood when he was a kid, he and his friends would have known how to deal with me, and while I didn't know exactly what would have been involved, it was clear to me that it would not have been a good thing.
