Coming out in midlife, because it’s never too late to be who you really are

Thirty years after shame sent me back in the closet, there is freedom, and rainbows.

Pride 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland.

I just celebrated the hell out of Pride 2023, the first June that I have felt fully out as a queer woman. Also, I am 52 years old. Coming out in midlife —  to family and friends, colleagues, communities, and most of all to myself  — is an ongoing process, and this year, with a new relationship, home and growing communi…