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Rachel T. is voting for Kamala

@mina Wait, what? Four had come out as gay, while still in high school, in 1988?! I graduated high school in 1983, and I now know at least six from our class who are queer (including me), but NONE had come out in high school. It would have been inconceivable. But that was in a semi-rural U.S. high school where more than half of graduates didn’t go to higher education. Where was your school located?

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Mina

@Rachel_Thorn

I went to high school in West-Berlin (slightly posh neighbourhood).

Whilst, there was certainly some of it around, open homophobia was not well received.

Rachel T. is voting for Kamala

@mina I see. I’m sure teens there were more progressive and less fearful than in the provincial area I grew up in. But then I went to college and suddenly it was fine to be openly queer. (Well, it was fine to be gay or bi, anyway. People seemed more skeptical of what they used to call “transsexuals.” I didn’t come out as trans till I was almost fifty!)

Mina

@Rachel_Thorn
Well, despite having lived in an understanding community, it took me equally long.

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