“Mr. Hammond, you’re gay? Right?” one of my students asked.
I’m a history teacher and don’t generally advertise this fact, for obvious reasons, but I won’t deny the truth either.
“Yes, I am,” I admitted. “Why do you ask?”
“My father says that gays, or guys who do stuff like that, have never done anything important or ever become really famous,” the boy responded. “Is that true?”
“I would definitely say it is not,” I replied, “but claims of that nature are sometimes hard to prove or di