I never told you guys about the night I came out to my super conservative Christian, Bible-literalist coworker.

It was fun. 

The whole conversation started because one of our regular customers (also a Christian) said I looked like Rachel Maddow. The customer was talking about how she was a lesbian and how that was awesome and he didn’t care because her loving a woman didn’t infringe upon his rights, so he was supportive.

My coworker looked at this guy and said, “And you’re ok with that?” and proceeded to start a conversation about how homosexuality is an “identity crisis”. He didn’t get to finish at that time because we got busy.

So later, I asked him what he meant by that. But I won’t really get into that here because it was an hour long conversation we had.

And then I told him I was queer (no, I said gay. Queer would have been a whole different conversation).

It was super awkward. But when we left that night, he hugged me and said he hoped we could still love each other…

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