I was 28 years old when I came out as a gay man. People wonder how I managed to stay in the closet so long, but on a practical level, it wasn’t that hard. Rarely was someone rude enough to ask.
For today’s high-school students, though, the question may soon be unavoidable. And it will come not from family or friends, but from a source that causes plenty of anxiety already: their college applications.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/I-m-Pretty-Sure-I-m/234364