Quality of Life: Happy Anniversary

Making the choice to come out let Adam Ross Nelson live openly. 10 years later he looks back at how he did it.

This article originally published in Our Lives Magazine May/June 2009 issue.

Ten years ago I came out to almost everyone in less than twenty-four hours. That was a busy summer. I was a year out of high school, had just turned nineteen, fresh home from a year abroad, preparing to start college, and planning a trip to visit my dad near the headwaters of the…