If the world was less judgmental, maybe people would be truer and more genuine. The fright of prejudice constricts, causing us to engage ourselves in making these cover ups just to fit into a certain socially accepted norm. Break the norm and you might just end up being laughed at or criticized for being different.
I'd have to admit that there are far more things I could've been more confident to the public about if it weren't for the given counter reaction. Being a person conscious of how other people perceive him, the truthfulness to my identity is often compromised, if not concealed.