Summary

The next chapter is titled “questions.” Doyle offers an anecdote from one of her town hall meetings of people reading her books or following her online presence. An elderly woman, she says, spoke of the shifting gender and orientations in her family, and asked why everyone seems so gay all of a sudden. Doyle describes the room becoming tense, and then that tension easing when she made a joke. She goes on to describe sexuality, faith, and many other aspects of identity as being part of the great sea of being human, and how persons have, for years, tried to define themselves by putting parts of that “sea” into “glasses,” or small containers like gay, Christian, and the like. She suggests that while it is difficult to acknowledge changes in perception, such changes often open a person to broader, healthier, happier experiences of...