💨 Abstract

The author recounts their coming out experience at 17, highlighting their father's initial reactions, including a letter with clichéd questions and a book on AIDS. The father's homophobic comments and societal prejudice led the author to struggle with self-acceptance. Despite the initial shock, the father's actions eventually inspired the author's journey into queer activism and entrepreneurship, including starting an anal sex research lab.

Courtesy: Henry Blest