queerness

Why the rattails? Why the reemergence of a trend so long associated with safety scissors and Obi-Wan Kenobi? The Daily Californian sat down with four hot, rattail-ed gay students to get to the bottom of this issue.

The storytelling method of bringing word to picture is built on the idea that anything that can be drawn can be believed. It is one of the few places where the fantastical is expected, the envelope is begging to be pushed.

While perhaps not homophobes, straight men feel an inclination to portray queer men in a sexual or feminine context as a joke in order to distance themselves from queerness.

“If we’re both here and we both like each other, why can’t we figure out what we could be?”

Some of the most important works in the horror genre are retroactively letting the skeletons out of the closet, and this raises an inevitable question: Now that we’re out, where do we stand?

But what I do know is that it’s OK to not know. It’s okay to identify as a lesbian and realize you’re bisexual. It’s normal to not know, to question yourself, to experiment.

She colored everything about that time of my life in golden hues of near unconditional affection. She gave me sunflowers and kissed my hands. We sang together, we harmonized. She felt right like few things ever had for me. She was a she, and that was hardly the scariest thing about her.

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