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@weblenaweek Day 5: Time

I was their age in the mid 90s. I wish I could say I could tell you what it was like to be a baby gay in 1995, but I don’t, because unless you watched the right TV (certainly nothing for kids) or knew the right people (I didn’t have very many friends), it was entirely possible to grow up in the 90s and never know what gay even meant. Ellen didn’t come out until 1997, and she wasn’t a superstar yet, not the kind of figure a child would be very familiar with. Rosie O’Donnell was closer, and she didn’t come out until 2002, the year I graduated high school.

The most I can say is that I wasted two years of my life obsessed with a boy I didn’t even like because in 5th grade my best friend got sick of me saying there wasn’t anyone I had a crush on, and told me angrily to just pick one. It wasn’t until 10th grade that an upperclassman looked at my home-made Powerpuff Girls T-shirt (the show was new and there was no merch yet) and said, with authority, “Buttercup is a lesbian” that I realized there were options.

It changed my life.

Anyway: the ducks are gay. They’re listening to Melissa Partridge’s Yes I Am on cassette with broken headphones because those fuckers ALWAYS broke. (It was the headband made of metal, it always busted through the plastic parts. You could try to fix it with electrical tape, but then it just got tangled in your hair.) I think I probably owned both of these exact outfits, two years apart.