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I’ve been thinking about how my emotional landscape will never be one that a man can hold. It is too fast, the seasons change too quickly, and the lightning too often strikes the ground.

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It is incredibly dangerous to equate being a “real” queer person with an official coming-out statement or “proof.” Harry Styles owes the world nothing. Folks who are still questioning owe the world nothing.

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“Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don’t invite her to parties. Some are big, like the fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there’s the one that she can barely even admit to herself—the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend.”

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My fellow inmates and I know how to escape. What we don’t know, however, is the consequences behind saying those three simple yet ever-so-life-changing words that will forever open those prison bar doors.

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The story will not be ending anytime soon, and I feel like I’m stuck in the tumultuous second act of the novel of my life whose momentum has gotten out of the author’s control.

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I’m in love with my Prince—the girl with the biggest, most open and honest heart I’ve ever known.

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“So, you’re pansexual and your partner is of the opposite sex. Are you still gay?”

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Those closed eyes used to talk—they used to shout, actually. You rambled with the end of your days and kissed the plague away.

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June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, so why not celebrate it with a good book?

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When I fell in love with a woman, the shape and skin of her, the smoothness of her voice and body, the scent of her—like sunshine mixed with cake icing—I staggered in surprise.