I didn’t realize I was gay until I hit my early twenties. I went to Catholic and Anglican schools in small towns. I paid attention during sex-ed. While it wasn’t all damnation and spontaneous conception, the possibility of being LGBTQI+ simply never came up. It was as if the majority of adults had decided…
Read More10 signs you were a budding baby queer in the late 90s/early 00s
You reached adolescence the same time as dialup internet. The world was a lot smaller. Facebook and tumblr hadn’t even been dreamed up yet. You did your assignments with encyclopedia CD-ROMs and played your game boy incessantly with the kids on the block. Nobody had mobile phones. You had to work this shit out on…
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