Maughn Rollins Gregory's essay raises questions about power and authority that are at the heart of the teaching enterprise. Each of Gregory's four episodes illuminates this essential conundrum from a different angle: the disempowerment of a teacher by an administrator responding to student homophobia; the effort to normalize difference through studied "nonchalance;" the need to clarify "the rules of the game;" and, Gregory's self-presentation as "native informant." At the heart of these experiences is the tension Gregory expresses in his analysis of Episode Four: the fear that "I might privilege my beliefs rhetorically, leading students to accept them uncritically... or make my students too uncomfortable to persist with the inquiry at all." Like Gregory, the author of this article has wrestled with various strategies for making LGBT people visible in her class. Some years, she has introduced herself at the beginning of class with a brief biography that includes her identity as the parent of a lesbian daughter. As a teacher educator and a researcher, the author has heard as many classroom coming out stories as there are LGBT teachers. She has never once heard a teacher--even those who were outed most traumatically--express the wish to be back in the closet. But she has also never heard anyone describe coming out as a wholly satisfactory experience. In fact, there is no "good" way to come out, not only because coming out always means making oneself vulnerable to homophobia, but because coming out itself reflects the societal heterosexism that makes lesbian and gay people invisible. Although there is no "good" way to come out, LGBT teachers and their allies should not stop doing so. In fact, heterosexism and hetero-normativity make it even more important for them to keep on coming out in the classroom as LGBT people and as allies. Finding ways to balance their power as educators with their empowerment as LGBT teachers and allies is no easy task. But as Maughn Gregory's essay shows, it is a one well worth undertaking.