“There is no “correct” way to be queer. I can just be exactly who I am: someone who’s loud, silly, bisexual; someone who has an emotional breakdown at the Met—and it’s all fine.”
, saying only, in her later years, that she’d had relationships with men and women.
These small history lessons on camp stood out to me because so often being queer means digging deep into your personal history, and doing so alone. We aren’t taught who our historical figures are, which further isolates us. Since middle school, we are taught that Samuel Adams threw tea in the Boston harbor, but not the names of those who rioted at Stonewall.
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