How one cake — and its unexpected baker — helped shape my queer identity: My great-grandfather's pound cake showed me how to authentically express myself.

As a professional baker, baking is how I bring comfort to others. While my words sometimes fail, baking enables me to nurture the people closest to me; when I bake for someone, I do so because I care about them deeply. As a boy growing up, however, caring for and nurturing others weren’t traits I was rewarded for focusing on. The post How one cake — and its unexpected baker — helped shape my queer…