Fire Shut Up in My Bones, came out, describing him as having been "in the closet" isn't fully accurate. Few of us have to contend with the added layer of having to come out publicly.
For Blow, it became a necessity when he started writing a column for The New York Times in 2008. "In that very first moment, I knew what that meant, that I was now a public figure," he says. "I knew that from a life in newspapers, that if you tell your own story, it belongs to you.
If somebody else tells your story, it belongs to them. And they're not going to be as kind to you as you will be to yourself."He came out, publicly, and what he found was not a community waiting with open arms to embrace this new, high-profile addition to the fold.