San Francisco Superior Court Judge Angela Bradstreet has spoken before about her terrible coming out four decades ago when she lived with her parents in London.
Ten years ago, she made an It Gets Better video in which she shared some of the story about when she was a young lesbian. But her mother's harshness, and the details of that awful day, she has largely kept to herself or only talked about it privately with her wife and friends.
That is, until now. Speaking with the Bay Area Reporter recently, Bradstreet, 66, said that she wanted to share her story in print for the first time.
She's doing so, she said, in hopes that she can help other young LGBTQ people, some of whom also go through agonizing coming out journeys with their families —