Why ‘Tolerating’ Your Queer Loved Ones Is Dangerous

By Bianka Bell

Hillcrest, San Diego, California (credit: flickr/Tony Webster)

When I first came out to my parents, I was terrified.

I mean, who wouldn’t be? As evidenced by recent events, “queerness” is not exactly a universally-accepted concept in mainstream society. In fact, since its early acknowledgment, it has been deemed a form of social eccentricity. It is a rising, but not yet popular “culture” (as would…