Unmasking Family Secrets and Fierce Truths: Jackie Domenus’s Raw, Unfiltered Memoir Challenges Everything You Think You Know
Jackie returns the reader to the gynecologist’s office in the next section of this essay and once again drops a truth bomb for queer people faced with the recursive need to educate people away from heteronormativity: “You’re thinking about how tired you are of throwing yourself out of the closet over and over again for complete strangers.” Amen, Jackie. When people say that life for queer people gets better, the tedium within this need for repeated revelation is not part of that equation.
And yet, Jackie returns to the question of coming out, this time as a queer person, at the end of the essay, A Closet, A Box, A Home, with beauty and inspirational self-acceptance:
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