So?,” by Jane Coaston (Opinion, July 24):Ms. Coaston’s report reveals both a fearsome and an exciting new world for the L.G.B.T. This world could not be more different than most older gay Americans’ experience growing up. I recall the very day and hour, at age 6, that I knew I was gay, although I wouldn’t know what that meant for many years. Boys are cool!”Seeing another gay person, or hearing any speck of validation for gay people, would seemingly never come to me in my more-conservative-than-Mississippi community in South Jersey. But we are a community now with many, many straight allies, and no matter what the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world have to say about it, we are never going back to the closet darkness.

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Persons: Jane Coaston, Coaston’s, speck, Marjorie Taylor Greenes Locations: Mississippi, South Jersey