On Sunday, my friend Manny retweeted the Facebook status of someone who supports GLBT National Coming Out Day, which was yesterday, October 11. Many of us here understand "coming out" of a different closet -- the one which stores our diabetes supplies -- and admitting our pancreatically-challenged status to the world. For some in our community, it has had profound effects relating to loss of a job, inability to get a new job, loss of health insurance, and (obviously) increased healthcare costs. Some people with diabetes have admitted that their decisions to marry, whom to marry, and/or when to marry have been directly affected by their partners'/spouses' insurance status.
Most of our gay and lesbian colleagues with diabetes do not have that option.
