Passing with Pride

A STORY BY: Maira McDermott

Pride as a concept has always been a little complicated for me. Growing up, I was super closeted — turns out getting consistently called “gay” as a pejorative for most of your childhood will do this to you! It wasn’t that I thought being gay was bad, it was just that the media I was consuming was Very Straight. When I was probably 14 or 15, I wanted to go to San Francisco on a weekend; I grew up in the…