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Based on Charles M. Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s –22 season (after a year and a half of darkness), making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met. PBS broadcast the opera nationally in preliminary April as part of its Great Performances at the Met series. With libretto by Kasi Lemmons, the production was codirected by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown, who also did the choreography.
The narrative follows a juvenile Charles as he remembers his childhood, the youngest of five boys, and the traumatic moment that still haunts him. While the opera doesn’t explicitly mention Blow’s bisexuality, which he describes in his memoir as sexual feelings towards men, not physically acted on until he graduated college, there are hints of it throughout. Act 2 opens with male dancers spinning and moving about the grown-up Charles. Two of them embrace each other, while Charles, played by Will Liverman, rests his head on another’s ches
Older LGBTQ+ adults share their stories of coming out after 50
From a year-old man finding the courage to come out to a former Baptist preacher revealing his authentic identity at 53, journalist Charles M. Blow uncovered the touching stories of everyday Americans who are embracing their true selves later in life.
Bestselling author and former New York Times columnist Blow, who came out as bisexual at 40, made this decision after he became a public figure. He revealed his sexual orientation in his memoir "Fire Close Up in my Bones," which is about his life growing up in Louisiana.
"Late to the Party: Coming Out Later in Life," airing Friday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming the next time on Hulu, follows Blow as he explores the experiences of older adults who have come out as LGBTQ+ later in life.
At book signings, people thanked him for his courage and told him they also came out in their 50s or older. Blow realized that it's a phenomenon that needed to be explored and discussed more to help reduce stigma and shame.
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By Ilyse Kramer
Charles M. Blow, who writes a visual Op-Ed column for The New York Times, came out as bisexual in his recently published memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Another personal truth that he reveals, and is careful to distinguish has not caused his bisexuality, is that he is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his cousin.
In his interview on Fresh Air, Blow stated:
“What the data shows us indisputably is that people who will later identify as LGBT contain disproportionate rates of having been victims of youth sexual abuse. So there are two ways to think of that — one of which I completely disagree with and one I agree more with. On the one end, the abuse is making these young people LGBT. The science for that is completely flimsy. I completely disagree with that idea.
On the other side &#; children who will eventually identify as LGBT are more likely to be targets of sexual predators. If you think of it that way, it changes our concept of how we need to nurture and care for children who are different&#;.
If you stare at it that way you re
&#;When you are not living an honest, open, correct life, you are taking advantage of a privilege granted to you by older, gay, lesbian, queer people who have sacrificed tremendously.”
The language of being &#;out&#; or &#;out of the closet&#; has evolved into something broad and imprecise — something that looks and feels alternative for everybody. When Charles M. Blow was married to his ex-wife, she knew he was bisexual. And after their marriage ended, he dated men and women, so while he didn&#;t publicly speak about his sexuality until when his memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, came out, describing him as having been &#;in the closet&#; isn&#;t fully accurate.
Few of us have to contend with the added layer of having to come out publicly. For Blow, it became a necessity when he started writing a column for The Fresh York Times in &#;In that very first moment, I knew what that meant, that I was now a public figure,&#; he says. &#;I knew that from a life in newspapers, that if you tell your have story, it belongs to you. If somebody else tells your story, it belongs to them. And t