I’m very pleased today to publish a guest post by J.A. Madrone, who also posts at Our Big Gayborhood. Please enjoy! On Being Tolerated By J.A. Madrone My ear cocked back when I heard the kids in my carpool group all talking in the back seat on the way home from school that day. “Jane is bi. Haley is lesbian,” one said. “I think that Jacob is gay, but he says he’s bi,” said the other. The kids were in middle school when this conversation took place. Curious, because I couldn’t imagine that anyone would be discussing such a thing, I probed. Turns out that things are a bit different than when I was growing up and the only semi-salacious thing discussed was the rumor that Darlene had “gone all the way” with a 9th grade boy sometime in the spring of 8th grade. It was all out in the