Marsha P Johnson did not throw a brick at Stonewall for a self loathing writer to be whining like this.
I understand his frustrations but that perspective reeks of internal conflict. I’ve never considered coming out to be “exhausting,” nor am I “sometimes out” as the author indicated he was. While he had some key points about the commercialization of “coming out,” he ultimately sounds like someone whom isn’t living in his truth. While I understand everyone’s coming out experience is individual, your
coming out journey is whatever you want it to be. Straight people do not get to decide that for you.
You can’t demand rights and visibility without the accompanying response from a very misinformed and curious world. To say that it wasn’t going to be his responsibility to educate, or, as he put it rather aggressively, be a “servant” to “straight wokeness,” then who is?