What It Was Like Coming Out: An Ominous Bus Ride

[ahunter3]

Sometimes people ask me what it was like to come out genderqueer in 1980, when there was no term for that.

Most often, these questions take one of the following forms:

"How is that possible? I don't understand. You came out as something you'd never heard of, that didn't exist yet? Isn't that just refusing to be put into any box and saying you're

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[anais_pf]

<3

[kanzeon_2040]

Making your book my next "Book of the Moon" - sorry I had not tackled it already. Will aim to finish it within the next two weeks!

[kanzeon_2040]

I'm sorry you got beat up like that. I've been sexually assaulted but not beaten up, well, except by my older sisters. I was bullied, but not beaten. I had to arrive home from school with bubble gum in my hair, because the bullies on the bus did that to me, but I didn't connect that to a gender or sexuality issue, just that people were mean. I was ... naive.

[lookfar]

That’s amazingly good metaphor.