![]() ![]() Always surface level or through the lens of someone straight. Like many others in the queer community, I had minimal exposure to LGBTQIA+ characters, and the exposure I did get involved families disowning their children after coming out, kids getting bullied, or Black Trans women getting assaulted or murdered. ![]() It took me 25 years to fully realize my sexual orientation because I never saw myself reflected in the pages or on a screen. Boy and girl fight then make up and live happily ever after. I didn’t admit it or know what it meant at the time, but I thought to myself “I’m team Bella.”Ĭountless times before that growing up, my adolescent brain consumed romcoms and love stories about what relationships were “supposed to” look like: Boy meets girl. I felt like there was something wrong with me because I wasn’t drawn to the male characters at all. They hung up posters, scribbled on their notebooks, and wore t-shirts to the movie theater claiming whether they were Team Edward or Team Jacob. In high school, I remember the fandom around the Twilight book series. ![]()
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