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Older LGBTQ+ adults split their stories of coming out after 50
From a 90-year-old man finding the courage to approach out to a former Baptist preacher revealing his real identity at 53, journalist Charles M. Blow uncovered the touching stories of everyday Americans who are embracing their true selves later in life.
Bestselling creator and former Modern York Times columnist Blow, who came out as attracted to both genders at 40, made this decision after he became a public figure. He revealed his sexual orientation in his 2014 memoir "Fire Shut Up in my Bones," which is about his life growing up in Louisiana.
"Late to the Party: Coming Out Later in Life," airing Friday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu, follows Blow as he explores the experiences of older adults who possess come out as LGBTQ+ later in life.
At book signings, people thanked him for his courage and told him they also came out in their 50s or older. Blow realized that it's a phenomenon that needed to be explored and discussed more to help reduce stigma and shame.
"Coming out late in existence, you are not alone. You are not defective," he said. "You are a differ
By Ilyse Kramer
Charles M. Blow, who writes a visual Op-Ed column for The New York Times, came out as bisexual in his recently published memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Another personal truth that he reveals, and is careful to distinguish has not caused his bisexuality, is that he is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his cousin.
In his interview on Fresh Air, Blow stated:
“What the data shows us indisputably is that people who will later identify as LGBT have disproportionate rates of having been victims of child sexual abuse. So there are two ways to think of that — one of which I completely object with and one I approve more with. On the one end, the abuse is making these young people LGBT. The science for that is completely flimsy. I completely disagree with that idea.
On the other side … children who will eventually identify as LGBT are more likely to be targets of sexual predators. If you believe of it that way, it changes our concept of how we need to nurture and care for children who are different….
If you look at it that way you realize that in some cases, not all of course, in some cases the predator is targeting childre
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He went on to state that the source of all that slander coming his way for creature bisexual and not “gay-obvious” enough was in big part a matter of — what else? — racism.
“Here it is essential to say that this criticism almost never came from the Black homosexual community but from the white one,” Blow wrote in his predictable way. “This critique may be divorced from race, but in my mind, a complete divorce is unachievable.”
And yet, for all of the oppression Blow has endured, he is apparently doing OK. He is, in fact, thriving.
Blow continued, “I was even asked recently in an interview why I wasn’t more gay, or something to that effect, because people who followed me would most likely not comprehend that I was part of the queer people. I reminded my interviewer that I had written a best-selling book about my identity and that that book has been developed into an opera that will become the first opera by a Black composer to be staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in its history. What other gay man can ma
Based on Charles M. Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black, as adv as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season (after a year and a half of darkness), making it the first opera by a Inky composer to arrive at the Met. PBS broadcast the opera nationally in early April as part of its Great Performances at the Met series. With libretto by Kasi Lemmons, the production was codirected by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown, who also did the choreography.
The narrative follows a young Charles as he remembers his childhood, the youngest of five boys, and the traumatic moment that still haunts him. While the opera doesn’t explicitly mention Blow’s bisexuality, which he describes in his memoir as sexual feelings towards men, not physically acted on until he graduated college, there are hints of it throughout. Operate 2 opens with male dancers spinning and moving about the adult Charles. Two of them embrace each other, while Charles, played by Will Liverman, rests his chief on another’s chest. As they transmit through, they arrive out to tap him. The scene is a tender and beautiful one in