The author’s father, age 90, four months before he died in 2008. Photo credit and article by Laura Hall for Huffpost Personal. Shared with her permission.

My father was gay. He was born in 1918. In my 20s, he started telling me stories about his early life. He was out in the 1930s at a time when it wasn’t common. He had dreams that most would not believe he dared to dream. The problem with my dad telling me all of this was that he was still married to my mother.

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