Susan MacNeil, the executive director of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region from 2000 to 2014, was a founding board member of Keene Pride and served on the Bellows Falls Pride Committee. This piece was written to mark National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11 and LGBTQIA+ History Month in October.
Americans are fixated on numbers. Infrastructure plan: $3.5 trillion. Votes cast in the 2020 presidential election: 100 million. Confirmed cases of COVID-19: 47,619,573 - and 769,310 deaths. Each of these numbers is hard to wrap your head around, linked inextricably to the human condition. But when the enormity of...