Sublime

In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single sub-society—Black or gay—I felt I didn’t have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look “nice.” To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn’t realize was how much

To go back home is to wrangle with who you are against who everyone thinks you should be.

nisei

James

gay predators in particular are figured as especially adept at derailing an otherwise good boy off the proper developmental track toward heterosexuality; and technology can abet this sexual ambivalence.

Is it not sad to be caught between desires?

the peril his attitude was leading him toward,