How an Impromptu Road Trip from Ohio to Michigan Helped Me Embrace My Sexuality

How an Impromptu Road Trip from Ohio to Michigan Helped Me Embrace My Sexuality

I would never consider Ohio beautiful. I live in Ireland now, near the north, and it meets every kitschy description: rolling hills, grazing area framed by stone fences and dotted with sheep, the nearby coast exhaling a cool, salty breeze over the town. I come from farmland. Out where it’s sticky and hot in the summer, teeth-crackingly cold in the winter; routinely, it smells of manure from the nearby fields. It’s quiet and slow and distant. I m…