‘I am a better version of myself today’: Baby Boomers detail their coming-out journey.
in what’s since become known as “The Lavender Scare.”
Key figures in the Rebellion, like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Stormé DeLarverie, led the charge for change that would serve as inspiration for decades to come; an era of coming out, self-discovery, a fight for civil rights and acceptance of all. A former Air Force officer and pilot, Robertson says she was “held back” from transitioning earlier in life over fears that she’d be dismissed from the service, thus losing her healthcare and income, both essential to her family. When Robertson’s spouse discovered her “clothes and accessories” in 2006, she says she “came clean.”
For Robertson, coming-out has been nothing short of a journey. “I felt fear, joy, sadness, apprehension, satisfaction, just to name a few,” she says. “Coming-out is filled with many emotions just as is marrying or separating or divorcing a partner, the arrival of a child, or the death of a loved one.”“I am who I am, and that, as my partner says, ‘I am a better version of me today than I was before I transitioned.
By the time she was a teen, however, Martin revealed to her friends that instead of boys, she preferred “being with girls,” and a few years later, in 1969, she came out to her family. While she says her mother was “most resistant,” there were other family members who supported her and “loved me unconditionally.”Above all else, it was liberating.
There was also denial. “The most resistance a few family members and friends who thought I would grow out of it,” Martin writes. And who is she? “I present as a feminine lesbian,” which she says sometimes leads people to jump to conclusions. “What does happen, because of that, the average person assumes I’m am heterosexual and will hold conversations with me such as ‘How’s your husband?’”To those on their own journey of self-discovery, Martin offers advice.
“She said to me, ‘I noticed that you’ve been really moody and something’s going on and I just want you to know that you need the kind of love that your family can’t give you. And should you get that love, I will love them.’”, as they love you. So that was her way of saying I’m ready whenever you are ready.”
“I think that he realized that his love for me trumped his discomfort with my sexuality,” Washington says. “He eventually came to realize that I’m still Craig.” “I love going out to dance,” he says. “The act of going out to dance has gravitas. I think about that. It keeps me in a place of gratitude and that consciousness of gratitude helps me when things get hard, when I can be very critical of myself. It keeps me in touch with all I have.”“There wasn’t even the word gay in 1961. It didn’t even exist." Pictured: Bill Lyons , Robert Reeves, Jessay Martin and Mick Peterson .
At the time, Peterson was working in the Minneapolis government as an intern. He said it was there that he learned that an LGBTQ event was taking place in St. Paul.
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