A few days before Christmas, my best friend — a gay man I have known since before junior high — sent me a text telling me that his 15-year-old great-niece had just come out to him.
He said he had called to ask her what she wanted for Christmas this year, and she told him she wanted a Pride flag. He was surprised that she was so matter of fact about it, but instead of making a big deal he just asked if she would like some more Pride stuff.
She was, he told me, so excited that he asked, and he was already having so much fun shopping for Pride stuff for her. Great-niece is totally “out and proud” at school, Guncle told me, and her mom (my friend’s niece) is totally supportive.