![]() Zam was quickly folded into my personal mythology. Would she be afraid of me, of the intimacy of our friendship and all the time we’d spent together since we were toddlers? ![]() ![]() It had always been an abstract at best a danger at worst. People we knew just didn’t do things like that. But coming out as gay-that was something else entirely. She was the first person from home that I told I had already admitted to her a few years earlier that I no longer believed in God, and she had taken it very well. I was 23 when I came out to my childhood best friend, Taylor, in the front seat of my trusty silver Chevy Cavalier that had been our chariot during our high school years. Laugh through the tears as the author of already indelible fairy tales finds herself ending up in one. But, of course, there's some heartfelt humor, too. In the following original comic, exclusive to for National Coming Out Day, Stevenson illustrates her long journey to self-acceptance, an almost superheroic battle against the gender essentialism of her Evangelical upbringing and our culture's compulsory straightness. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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