2026-06-02 12:24 UTC
In the U.S., schools crudely teach basic facts of life when students are about 10 or 12 years old. My fourth grade teacher, the only male on faculty at my rural school, had the distinct honor of leading the boys' section.
He invited us to write down our questions on pieces of scratch paper. When his lecture was done, he read our questions and answered them aloud. I asked one based on a phrase he used that I didn't recognize.
"What is homosexuality?"
#LGBTQIA #Queer #Pride
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@cbharris@poweredbygay.social 2026-06-02 12:30
Being "gay" in that place - an elementary school serving a farming community of 400 people - and that time (mid-1990s) meant a form a gender dysphoria. Being gay meant wanting to be a girl, and that wasn't me. I liked girls and I was confidently cisgender. The very construct of what it meant to be gay didn't allow for the Bi umbrella. There were no books. There was no cable TV. There was no internet beyond dial-up connections. We knew what we knew.