Thank you for this great piece of reporting and for reaching out past France and Gossett. I would request that if you hear back from Gossett, Wortzel, and/or Mock, that you make that super clear in the header and up-front, as I would love to read this again with their added comments and perspective should they decide…

Pine Ridge is one of the most depressed, broken and tragic examples of the reservation system. I’ll bet those kids are really proud of themselves for bullying this otherwise thriving community.

I would say... you did the best with the situation you were in. You could come out now, it’s not actually as horrible as you imagined, but you would have to keep justifying yourself to everyone all the time. You’ll learn eventually to assert yourself, no worries. You might lose friends, but the ones you’ll get after…

I sort of debated on whether to write anything or not, but decided it seemed somewhat therapeutic so I figured why not. Even if it ends up in the greys for eternity.

I came out in late 2014. Here’s what I would have told myself with the knowledge that I know today:

-your queerness is the greatest gift you’ve ever received. let that keep you strong when the worst parts of this process come to pass.

Note: I was born in 1960, and my life in the closet included a Navy career even before DADT. When I was born, being gay was criminal nationwide. So a lot of what I would have needed to tell my younger self is not nearly as applicable to anyone in the closet today. Thank God, and thank all the amazing people who were…

There is no schedule for coming out, and it isn’t a race. Sometimes it’ll be expedient to go back in the closet for a bit, but you’re still you even if you’re not out. You are not being dishonest when you make your safety and happiness paramount. And being out is a marathon, not a sprint—you’ll be coming out in any…

Not to mention how fucking awesome it would be to have a male ally on the lower rungs...since we’re stuck here. This guy could be a hero, but instead he’s whining about how hard this (“this” being “women getting fed up with being treated like shit, and finally feeling juuuust safe enough to say so”) is for him.

I don’t understand the conservative mind. I think it must be fundamentally different than mine on a structural level.

How does every day continue to get worse?

Netflix has worldwide rights outside of US/Canada (Space has the rights in Canada.) That very same Netflix deal pretty much paid off the production budget of the series.

Fifteen Million Merits was the stuff of true nightmares.

San Junipero is the only episode of Black Mirror I’ve seen. Are the others worth watching or will it be a let down after that?

That’s totally why my husband and I got married! I mean, it’s right there in the gay agenda.