Demons thrive in the dark. That dark being ignorance. In my 20s and 30s, I was fortunate enough to get to know many openly gay people at a time when being so wasn’t safe and wasn’t as accepted as it is today. They taught me that lesson. That they are just people like everyone else. The experience made me a better person, and opened my eyes to the reality that we are far more alike than we are different. But fear, and the desire for power over others get in the way….and blind us to this fact.