A VERY IMPORTANT THREAD.
Long rant with spoilers below because this thread is super important!
Representation
So this is random but it’s part of my NaNo story so it’s in my head.
When I was coming out (I was 18 at the time so 2001) I actually, legitimately, thought that being gay was a white thing because I couldn’t think of any black queer people in my life who I could look at. To my knowledge there was no one in my family, the one girl I knew of on my block was labelled “confused” because she was bisexual, and I couldn’t think of any positive representation in the media at the time.
Representation is so important.
