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“You know," I said, "I think the thing that scared me most about admitting that I'm, you know, gay or whatever isn't so much that people would taunt me by saying 'Oh, James likes other boys,' but that they would say stuff like,
"Oh, turns out James isn't a boy after all.' You know?"
Kate Bornstein makes this point in their book—that homophobia stems more from gender norms than fear of same gender attraction

something about being gay in New England just hits 🤌🏻