Laly

“Sometimes you have to reclaim it," he mutters. "Because it gets rubbed in your face either way.”
― Austin Chant, Coffee Boy

“I guess I think of it as what we called each other in college when we didn't want to use gay to refer to everyone who's not straight and cisgender."
Seth ducks his head. "I understand that. It doesn't bother me so much when other people talk about the community, about themselves. I suppose, since I didn' come out until I was older, I just never had much of a chance for positive associations with being called queer.”
― Austin Chant, Coffee Boy

“Okay. I'll, uh... I'll come in for some extra hours some other time. Could you tell Marcus I was sick or something, not that I'm-" Having some kind of disproportionate emotional collapse because somebody asked if I was okay?”
― Austin Chant, Coffee Boy

“That's okay," he offers. "I mean, you don't have to want to be called that."
Seth offers him a halfway smile. "I like to think so. It does feel cowardly at times."
"Cowardly?"
"Some people seem so confident in reclaiming everything that's ever been thrown at them.”
― Austin Chant, Coffee Boy