Love it but I only really share it when I feel like it. I’m pretty straight passing so it’s easy for me to just live my life. My favorite thing about it, is how it really opened my eyes to all the fun stuff in the world I was dismissing because it didnt fit with normal gender roles. It helped me find security in my masculinity and it improved my ability to communicate my feelings. Hanging out with other members of the LGBT community had a profound effect on my politics as well and helped me realize some of my speech was rather hurtful. I went from a conservative, to an independent, to a heavily armed socialist volunteering as an election judge for my DFL caucus district in rural Minnesota. It’s also given me the good fortune to help other LGBT community members, bigots are a lot less likely to argue with an angry straight passing weirdo in public.

It’s had a really positive effect on my life, and even helped me meet my bi-wife.