All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson

It’s not your fault, beloved. It was never your fault. How could you know on the day you were born that this world wasn’t a safe place for you to be?

You were meant to be here.

I believe that the dominant society establishes an idea of what “normal” is simply to suppress differences, which means that any of us who fall outside of their “normal” will eventually be oppressed.

My second identity—queer—is a journey that I will be on until the day I die,

As a child, I always knew I was different.

Many of us are still here. Still living and waiting for our stories to be told—to tell them ourselves.