I’ve been out as bisexual/Queer (depending on my company and the makeup of my system host) since I was a teenager. When I came out, most of my friends told me flat out that it was a phase. My girlfriend threatened to break up with me if I didn’t recant. My father’s violently homophobic rhetoric around the house kept me from even trying there. It was a mess. It forced me back into the closet, and coupled with the policing I was starting to receive as I branched out into skirts and women’s wear...