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    I’m so glad to be gay

    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes
    MATTHEW NORMAN

    Even in so blessed an era of sexual- preference enlightenment, coming out to a parent isn’t easy.

    One might imagine it were otherwise. One may, in one’s smugly hetero way, assume that any ‘stigma’ perished too long ago to make such a confession one iota more nerve-jangling than an admission to having left the milk out of the fridge overnight.

    Yet it is. On this, I speak from recent experience. It is a matter of days since I came

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