I organize my life with a lot of lists – names of my future children, items I forgot during the last trip to the grocery store, student papers that need grading, things to pack for the next car trip. Today, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of National Coming Out Day, in a year that saw DOMA struck down, Prop 8 invalidated, and same-sex marriages take place in Maryland, I am excited to participate in the creation of a different kind of list, the UMBC OutList, a list of faculty and staff who have chosen to identify themselves as members of UMBC’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community.... (continue reading)