He uses words and labels I recognize, and defines the ones I don’t. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, polysexual, genderqueer, nonbinary, aromantic, grayromantic, demiromantic, and on and on. Even if none of them click for me, if none sound like my experience wrapped up in a convenient label, I know they do for other kids out there. Kids who may have sat exactly where I am now and realized who they were for the first time. Today, that’s enough for me.
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