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Maybe I should have made a Phantom of the Opera joke in the title instead...

Throw ‘Em Back Till I Lose Count

October 19th, 2017 | by Trae Dorn

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Langland

October 19, 2017 at 4:09 am | # | Reply

Bork Con is screwed. Maybe Terrence will pay for the damage in addition to already royally screwing up.
- E. Bernhard Warg
  
  October 19, 2017 at 11:33 am | # | Reply
  
  In Terrence World, it wouldn’t have happened if they’d done things his way…
Vince Averello

October 19, 2017 at 7:51 am | # | Reply

Did the chandelier fall past them? Are they on a floor above the lower level? I seem to be hung up on the perspective here for some reason… sorry. This is definitely not a good thing for the BorkCon team.
- Moose
  
  October 19, 2017 at 8:29 am | # | Reply
  
  Looks like they are standing on a stage.
  - Trae Dorn
    
    October 19, 2017 at 9:00 am | # | Reply
    
    Yeah, they’re on the main programming stage.
calvsie

October 19, 2017 at 8:57 am | # | Reply

After a couple years of hinting at it, we finally got a chandelier !
mitamaking

October 19, 2017 at 10:19 am | # | Reply

No joke if Roy did this, he should be kicked off staff, which sucks, cause I like Roy.

http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2016/10/chandelier/
- Trae Dorn
  
  October 19, 2017 at 10:32 am | # | Reply
  
  It wasn’t Roy’s fault this time.
  
  http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/10/whooooooooooooooooooooo1/

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National Coming Out Day ( October 12th 2019 )
So yesterday was National Coming Out Day, and like most things with my queerness I have an odd relationship with it. I'm nonbinary genderqueer, but I spent most of my 39 years on this earth deeply in the closet.

A good chunk of that time was because I honestly lacked the vocabulary for what I was. But even when I knew the words, I still kept it to myself. I never had a single "coming out" because of it. I first told my wife. Then I later told a few friends. Then years later I finally told my family... sort of.

A year before I came out to my family I ended up in a conversation about nonbinary identities, and my father did what he sometimes does when confronted with new ideas outside his experience - demand excessive citations to an occasionally emotionally exhausting level.

(It's not that he's unwilling to learn, but you kind of have to specifically, point by point walk him through it.)

He didn't know that the conversation was a canary in a coal mine, and I literally put it away for a year and a half. It got to the point where I was tired of hiding something that big day to day though, and I knew I needed to tell my family before I was public about it.

So I told my mom.

Her response was "Do you want me to tell your Dad for you and instruct him not to ask any follow up questions or bug you about it?"

I said yes.

A few months later I quietly updated all of my social media and website bios to reflect it. While I prefer gender neutral pronouns, masculine ones don’t bother me at all so I never made a big deal about it. Frankly I'm pretty pronoun indifferent most days.

But I also didn't make a big deal out of it because the imposter syndrome roots deeply into my bones. I spent so long in the closet I don't know if I'll ever fully feel comfortable claiming that I'm a part of the LGBTQ+ community - even though I am.

I'm 39.

I didn't completely come out until I was 37.

And I wish I'd done it sooner.

(Also, back when I had a band we actually played a concert at UW-Eau Claire's Coming Out Day event. That was 11 years ago. Wow. )

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