Laly

“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

“Kieran lets it out, in careful, clipped sentences so people sitting at tables nearby won't notice that he's on the verge of crying, in language so detached that he could be talking about someone else. In a quiet voice, not the voice he uses to mouth off at his superiors, not the way he talks to his friends, but maybe the way he'd talk to someone who could help.”
― 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

“I went through this whole phase where I wanted to watch every gay movie. I didn't realize I was queer till college, so I had a lot of time to make up. But that got old, so now I-" Kieran cringes. "Watch a lot of cartoons? I know, I could stand to get out more.”
― Austin Chant, Coffee Boy