Mastodawn

The jumper is quite long, a bit too long for a guy. The look of a longline jumper dress helps, especially when the morbid clown shoes look like tiny canoes to sail through the tears I want to cry. I put the tie on…
It feels like a noose every single time.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/performing-him-the-cost-of-attending-a-funeral-closeted-daf9f32679f4?sk=86a004a6694844476b89c8d5cea14a13

Middle-aged and muddled, I do what I must. As always.

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No one worries about who's #gay more than a #closeted gay motherfucker

LGBTQ+ Americans are going back in the closet under Donald Trump: report

An apparition of self describes me perfectly: I am chained to this place, ticking boxes on my shopping list, and living a life I no longer feel alive in.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/transgender-ghost-the-woman-haunting-you-48e9a5d8b21d?sk=53ab0d454f2e714e68eb8a2aa5ff486f

“My dad was a real charmer, a salesman. My mother wouldn’t admit it, but he had tons of ladies, tons of affairs on the road and — get this, I just found this out — he had affairs with men too.”
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-gay-friends-dad-never-told-him-about-his-own-experiences-with-men-035f8f0a086d?sk=c63497074bb8ff871a50133acdeeb2b0

‘The Greatest Generation’ felt being gay was a choice… because they’d resisted the temptation

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For a minute, it feels good to be one of the guys. But, afterwards, my heart kinda hurts. First, because that cringy BS came outta my mouth. Second, because I definitely didn’t mean it.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-closeted-teen-bully-seeks-a-sympathetic-ear-0f4e7550d213

As a new school year begins, I’m imagining an open plea from a gay teenager trapped in the manosphere.

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