Being Outed Was Traumatic, But It Pushed Me To Accept — and Embrace — My Sexuality

June is Pride Month.As told to Nicole Audrey SpectorGrowing up, I never really thought much about what it meant to be gay, bisexual or trans. I was raised in a Catholic household, and topics of sexuality and gender identity didn’t come up one way or another. I was at some point made aware that my cousin was gay, but she was much older, and we weren’t close.I went to Catholic school and was taught that marriage was something that should exist only between a man and a woman. I never thought of myself as anything other than straight. In my early twenties, I was in an on-again, off-again four-year