National Coming Out Day
painting Jane Eaton Hamilton 2016
It’s National Coming Out day. If you’re feel safe and protected enough in your circumstances to do so, I hope you’ll join us as out and proud people! It can be uplifting, unnerving, relieving, and thrilling to take that step.
Many, many of my short stories are queer, as are many, many of my poems and my novel WEEKEND. Here are some of my short fictions specifically about coming out:
Smiley, by Jane Eaton Hamilton, not yet collected: A young man in Cape Town works up his courage to tell his mother he’s trans.
Hunger, by Jane Eaton Hamilton from the collection HUNGER: A young runaway tries to escape the clutches of her older Vancouver lover.
Territory, by Jane Eaton Hamilton from the collection HUNGER: A woman leaves her husband for another woman.
Kiss Me or Something by Jane Eaton Hamilton from the collection HUNGER: A butch partners tries to get pregnant with her sometimes-straight woman partner.
I hope you’ll help me identify more short stories by other authors which celebrate coming out by responding to this post!
Here are the responses so far:
“Angel” by Elise Levine
“This is What You Get” by Benjamin Alire Saenz
“Ashes” by Nancy Jo Cullen
“From the Gloria Stories” by Rocky Gamez
“No Bikini” by Ivan Coyote
“My Marriage to Vengeance,” by David Leavitt
“Brokeback Mountain,” by Annie Proulx
“Smiley” by Jane Eaton Hamilton
“Her Thighs” by Dorothy Allison
“Fisherman” by Nalo Hopkinson
“Am I Blue” by Bruce Coville
“A Dad Called Mom” by Anne Fleming
“Skin” by Racquel Goodison
“Aye and Gomorrah” by Samuel Delaney
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