The excitement of invisibility

From an interview with lesbian poetry Elizabeth J. Colen over at Boxcar Poetry Review:

EC: ….Gay people were marginalized to the point of complete invisibility. In high school I only knew one other queer and I was fucking her. And she didn't even admit she was gay until a few years after we broke up. Maybe I was stupid, but I saw the invisibility as excitement, like we were super heroes or something. I mean, I knew we could be killed, that much was clear from the language used around everything queer.

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