This Book Is Gay

by Juno Dawson

‘If you think of sexuality in terms of music, where the low notes represent being attracted to boys and high notes represent being attracted to girls, I am a Slayer guitar solo.’

Stereotypes are useless for one very simple reason—they dehumanize people and allow terrible prejudices and discrimination to come creeping in. Bigots THRIVE on stereotypes. It’s much easier to hate a faceless stereotype than it is a human being.