IIRC, you came out to me in an email, within the first month or so of our school acquaintance. There may have been mentions of Jadzia, or we might have been discussing the relative merits of various actors and actresses in the LOTR films. But I distinctly remember you phrasing it as, "I'm sort of bisexual, but more attracted to my own gender." I had just--like two days before that--read an article in a magazine in the SUBtext bookstore by a lesbian girl saying that she would sometimes say that to people, because of it sounding less threatening, instead of saying straight off I AM GAY, NADIIN. So, I immediately coded your response as, "Okay, she's probably actually gay, not only bi," which did turn out to be pretty true. And then of course we decided that you could have Jadzia, I would have Julian, and everyone would be happy (so long as we both got to snog Janeway and philosophize about Data)...
One cool thing about knowing you is that you *are* so 'normal' looking and acting. Which makes a thick-headed kid like me start to realize that, whoa, gay people really actually truly are people, just like anybody else, no really. Which goes a loooooong way towards solving the angst over 'teh ev0l gays taking over the world'.
(Then of course, you DID take over the world...er...what was that Bellatrys was saying about rehearsing world domination monologues in the shower...?)
I distinctly remember you phrasing it as, "I'm sort of bisexual, but more attracted to my own gender."
Ah, yes, that must have been in the last-few-gasps-stage of my bisexual period. :) I spent a long time wavering between identifying as bi and identifying as gay.
One cool thing about knowing you is that you *are* so 'normal' looking and acting.
*shock* I? I am? Really?
*has always thought of self as not-normal*
Well. That's kind of...neat, actually. Once one gets used to the notion, and an odd and strange-tasting notion it is. :)
Then of course, you DID take over the world...
*dissolves into giggles* I did! Teh Gays really are taking over the world! Who knew?! *recruits gay army to serve the Empress*
One cool thing about knowing you is that you *are* so 'normal' looking and acting. Which makes a thick-headed kid like me start to realize that, whoa, gay people really actually truly are people, just like anybody else, no really. Which goes a loooooong way towards solving the angst over 'teh ev0l gays taking over the world'.
(Then of course, you DID take over the world...er...what was that Bellatrys was saying about rehearsing world domination monologues in the shower...?)
*glomp!*
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Ah, yes, that must have been in the last-few-gasps-stage of my bisexual period. :) I spent a long time wavering between identifying as bi and identifying as gay.
One cool thing about knowing you is that you *are* so 'normal' looking and acting.
*shock* I? I am? Really?
*has always thought of self as not-normal*
Well. That's kind of...neat, actually. Once one gets used to the notion, and an odd and strange-tasting notion it is. :)
Then of course, you DID take over the world...
*dissolves into giggles* I did! Teh Gays really are taking over the world! Who knew?! *recruits gay army to serve the Empress*
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