Under the Rainbow

(note: This essay was published in The Buckeye Flame online magazine as well as in the online publication, Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life, and Love in Northeast Ohio through Literary Cleveland. Both are great, so please check them!) I have a somewhat conflicted history with the Rainbow Pride Flag. 

I’m Coming Out…Again…and Again…and Again…

I have been coming out of the closet my entire adult life.  I have to say that since my first “official” coming out, I have not gone back “in” in any way, but I consistently have to announce my gayness to just about everyone I meet for the first time.