By Nick Levine — 2020
Though pop culture often portrays queer people successfully coming out young, a generation of our closeted LGBTQ elders might disagree.
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CLEAR ALL
I’ve discovered that growing older hasn’t been a Lego-like replacement of “young” Ken figures with increasingly older versions. Instead, all of these younger selves are still very much alive and thriving, layered and integrated over the years.
Every day, I get closer to the brink of everything. We’re all headed that way, of course, even when we’re young, though most of us are too busy with Important Matters to ponder our mortality.