October 11 marks National Coming Out Day, and since I’ve written many a gay post here over the past seventeen years, I’ll not regale you with the tale of my own coming out because it’s been done before. Rather, I’m asking a simple question that hangs in the air with the idea of a new Supreme Court justice taking Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vaunted place. How would you feel if your marriage was suddenly up for a vote, and if it went the wrong way would be deemed null and void? Or better yet, how would you feel if you grew up in a world where you weren’t allowed to marry the one that you loved? National Coming Out Day is about coming out and being true to who you are. That’s a relatively new luxury – and for many it’s still not a luxury at all. We met remember that. We must safeguard it. And we must work to protect the rights we’ve earned when hate and homophobia make motions to rise again. No one is equal until everyone is equal.
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