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1 " The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkness, or in the light of one’s self-truth. It doesn’t promise stepping into the light will be easy, but it does imply a fundamentally altered human experience. "
― , The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
2 " Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a woman is supposed to look is wholly contagious. "
3 " That’s the thing about being a queer millennial: it’s not about things getting better in any linear fashion but holding a painful past and an optimistic future together, one in each hand, at the same time. "
4 " Not because she read my name on an anonymous posting board, but because I was in Paris and had seen Moulin Rouge far too many times to let such an opportunity go to waste. "
5 " This is happening. "
6 " I regret to report I let my barely legal self down. "
7 " Then I got out of the bubble. "
8 " Thanks to J. K. Rowling’s post-Deathly Hallows media existence, I’d like to add another quip to the pile of Potter wisdom: Don’t ever trust half-baked gay characters. "
9 " God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me. For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal journey than to participate in my own life. "
10 " The classic queer way of working through a problem: just get into a new relationship and forget all about it. "
11 " Bless. "
