You Know Me Well

by Nina LaCour

We are all on our way to the same party even if it’s taking place in hundreds of different bars and living rooms. We are going out to celebrate ourselves and one another. To fall in love or to remind ourselves of all the people we’ve loved in the past.

this just filled me up with pride just in time T.T

All the lesbians I know are in some way smarter than me, or at least seem to know the world a little more. They also tend to read a lot of books.

or if there are invisible pockets of lesbians who meet in empty classrooms throughout the school, under the radar of gay boys who are too caught up in their own drama to notice.

Yes

He’s wearing a One Direction T-shirt, on which someone has spray-painted AND THAT DIRECTION IS OUT.

Amazing

We have tap water, tap water, or tap water. We’re a nonprofit, after all. Not that we’re a charity—we just rarely turn a profit! Ha!”

relatable

And then she is kissing me, right here on the sidewalk on a foggy summer night. Violet is kissing me, and everything is perfect.

We are kissing like girls who have ached for each other for years. Who never even spoke but somehow exchanged I love yous anyway. Who pored over photographs and gazed into computer screens and dreamed, over and over again, of this moment.

This is so on brand fof the lesbian experience

There will be old people who fought hard for what we all have now. There will be babies who will only know a country where everyone can marry. There will be signs reminding us of how far we still have to go.