Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Sep-2025 21:35:21 JST

I did eventually (briefly) end up dating one of the boys from this group.

A few years ago, he became famous for being the gay man lawyer who helped win a massive LGBQT legal milestone in Singapore. We still laugh about how it must have been that we felt very safe with each other, even as 15 year olds without the language to describe who we really were. It just looked like what we were supposed to do. Go out with someone of the other gender. And for a while I guess it bought us cover.

I was still a year or two away from my first real queer relationship.