Openly Straight

by Bill Konigsberg

What would that be like? I thought. To never return to the person I was before. To never again have to stand out as different, to fade into the crowd, to be this new, uncomplicated Rafe forever? The idea made me shiver.

I mean, if you accept something, you take it for what it is. Tolerance is different. Less.

there were about a thousand things I liked better than this part, in which we talked about women like they were just things. I tried to imagine what it would be like if gay were normal and all of us were gay. Would we objectify men in the same way?

They’d be lucky to be half the man you are,

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

Nothing that comes from love could ever be wrong.”

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.