It’s the lens through which I move my politics, my creativity and my pleasure and I refused to keep that a secret any longer.įor LGBTQ+ people, non-queer culture seems to only focus on and celebrate our “coming out” as the grandiose act of courage, while rarely following up to hear the unsavory details of what it’s like for us to grow into and live in our queerness. My queerness, like my Blackness, is one of the best parts about me. Maintaining the illusion of being straight was making me extremely unhappy and my art bland as hell. I was also there to finally begin the process of relieving myself of the shackles of assumed heterosexuality by letting my mom in on the fact that I am queer.
It was her 60th birthday, but I didn’t just come home to celebrate her. In May 2019, I went home to Columbus, Ohio to visit my mother.
