I’ve found a beautifully moving personal essay [PDF] by gay law professor William B. Rubenstein about his experience attending Harvard Law School and discovering himself as a gay man. (I didn’t realize he was so cute!) Rubenstein is the author of a major casebook on sexual orientation and the law, which is coming out in a new edition next year.

I chose Harvard so I could come out, or, more precisely, I chose Harvard because it was in Boston, a large anonymous city that enabled me to come out at my own pace. I looked forward to the education, but Harvard promised something Yale could not: not just law, but sex and reason, flesh and the word, beauty and truth.