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And that wouldn’t be true at all for teenagers today. But I didn’t see any of that, and I was so desperate for it. The lesbrarian, people were always talking about the lesbrarian. There were the teachers that everyone heard the rumors about, blah blah blah. I would wear out the scenes in that because I was so desperate, like, “Where are the people like me reflected back to me? They have to be out there.” There certainly were no examples for me just living openly in my town at that time.

I would watch and rewatch Fried Green Tomatoes an embarrassing number of times. You’d sit through the worst movie if you heard there was a scene with any sort of inkling of some sort of lesbian sexuality. You would be able to access this community from Miles City, Mont., and find all kinds of not just people to connect to, but information about different kinds of culture. And I don’t like it when everybody’s all, “Ooh, the Internet,” but it really is. One of the most obvious changes that I can’t speak to at all is the Internet. Sittenfeld: Does it seem to you from afar like it’s dramatically different?ĭanforth: It really does. Do you feel like you know what it’s like to be a gay teenager in high school now? Sittenfeld: Your novel starts in 1989, which feels like a shockingly long time ago-that was the year I started high school.

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