![]() In 1952, just 4 years before my father was born, he was prosecuted for homosexual acts in the United Kingdom, and his punishment: chemical castration. Alan Turing, a man widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, is one of these faces we have a name for. ![]() In the US, being gay was considered a mental illness until 1973, and so many nameless, unnumbered faces were subjected to horrors I could never imagine in 2022. It wasn’t very long ago that a man, admitting he was attracted to another man, landed him in a mental institution. My mental health is not who I am, but it is part of the tapestry that is me. Little did I know that despite all the tragedies and hardships that have befallen my 40+ years, that these things, stacked upon other things would create traumas and anguishes that to this very day still robs me of being fully happy and at peace with who I am. In this big, beautiful, ever-changing blue marble we call home, it’s not easy to be gay, nonetheless gay and happy. ” It’s not easy living in a state that, for so long, criminalized things you do in the privacy of your home and comes after children who discover their true selves at an early age. It’s not easy growing up knowing your father thinks you “should have been born a girl.” It’s not easy knowing that your mother, someone who did so much for you, only loves a part of you and constantly “prays for you.
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