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I hung out with someone I knew when I was an awkward teenager. He’s also now a fabulous gay man in New York City. (Yes, Singapore is actually extremely queer)

It was wonderful comparing our paths. He didn’t see a path to fabulous gayness back home and had to leave much earlier (for college) while I tried to make it work. My Chinese and other privileges (our society can’t really read into obvious queerness unless you’re ’loud’ about it) made my particular queerness more.. tolerable?

Anyway, we remembered what it was like being young and confused. We went to a ‘writing and pottery summer camp’ attended primarily by people from the top boys and girls schools. I think it’s an even split: 1/3 of us are flaming gays, 1/3 of us are handy dykes, 1/3 of us are evangelical Christians. Half of the evangelical Christians are repressed queers.