The Story of My Life: Too Gay? Too Black?

On writing what you know and embracing who you are.

I have a four-year anniversary coming up on Sunday, two days before Election Day. November 4, 2014, the day after I started a new job in my then-new homebase of Sydney, Australia, and the day of the last U.S. midterms, was also the day I self-published my first book, Is It True What They Say About Black…