“One of the hardest moments for me and, perhaps, other gay men and women is the first time you actually say out loud to another person ‘I am gay.’ You hear it inside your head a lot and you think it will be easy. And you’ve constantly been saying, ‘I’m not gay,’ so one might imagine that excising an apostrophe and a single three-letter word and inserting an ‘a’ would be easy.”

“It’s not.”

— from “The Very Last Life Serial”, in Glassdog