Understanding Those Who Won’t Understand Us

The author at the age he realized he was different

For a podcast I’m going to be on, Everything is Stories, we decided one of the segments should address how a sweet little gay boy from a loving family turned into such a prodigious liar — to the point of landing him in prison. I traced this back to the very first secret I had, expressing what I think is a near-universal experience of most LGBT people:

“I had known I was different before I…