I would describe my mother as conditionally accepting. She loves her gay friends, but she doesn’t really understand the “other letters in that acronym”. She often votes Conservative, and she is a woman who is very set in her ways. These are all reasons that I couldn’t come out to her sooner. I slowly realised that it was also the reason that I had never come out to anyone – the memories of microaggressions in the scared, closeted person’s mind are persistent…