MAD HONEY IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! When I came out 22 years ago, LOTS of well-wishers told me I should move to a city where no one knew me, and live a life in hiding. On another occasion, after an event in Ohio, a young man told me that before he heard me speak, he thought people like me “should be exterminated.” Even today I get hate mail all the time, people who have never met me claiming they know my soul better than I do. Once, in New York City, a man came up to me on the street and started yelling and swearing at me. Over the last 6 years I have spent a lot of time afraid and worried, for me, and for the ones I love. When I can out, I told people I “wasn’t an activist.” Because I thought that meant a person who chains herself to a fence. I did not fully understand them that telling stories IS an act of subversion, or resistance, and of hope. Today we are on the bestseller list. With luck this story will open hearts. Because that’s what stories do.