![]() But it also feels like a milestone I feel less like a gayby and more like a person surrounded by other people who just happens to think a lot about Boygenius. I know that’s largely a function of my identity as a white, cis, straight-passing person who rarely has to worry about blatant acts of homophobia or structural discrimination. ![]() I only came out a few years ago, but it’s kind of remarkable how quickly queerness shifted from the new, exciting thing consuming all of my thoughts to just, well.the norm. (Or, at least, it did before the pandemic-now we’re all holed up in our bedrooms, texting each other gay memes.) And when you combine that with the fact that most of my best friends are former roommates from my hippieish liberal-arts college, you end up with a cross section of the population that looks a lot like a crowded party scene on The L Word: Generation Q. Okay, no, they’re not-decidedly not, in fact-but New York does have more openly LGBTQ+ residents than any other metro area. In the small corner of Brooklyn that I reside in, it feels like everyone is queer.
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