I knew that coming out as gay to my father—which I did at around age 18—would be stressful, but I also found a way to comfort myself in preparation. Surely, I reasoned, this would be no more difficult than my first self-outing experience, which had occurred a couple of years earlier.

That’s when I bravely announced myself as… (deep breath) a Maria Callas fan…

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