The coming out narrative, in which a young or closeted homosexual struggles to accept his or her sexual identity, has been the dominant theme in gay literature since at least 1862 when the pioneering LGBT activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs told his family that he was "a female Psyche in a male body" and began writing about it. Over the following 150 years, the fear of being found out, the horrors of being bullied…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AM on January 26, 2013