(Originally published on QueerLife - By Ulla Kelly)

Since the Coming Out Stories project started, I’ve been pondering the concept of closets and coming out of them. It’s so much bigger than sexuality, I think. It feels like coming out to tell people I have PTSD and am on anti-depressants.

When I tell local people I’m a Buddhist they react as if I just said I was gay/alien/mad. Those three things are not synonyms. My conclusion is that you don’t have to be LGBTQ to come out.

I’ll t...


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