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I Am Only as Alone as Everyone Else
by Kyle Labe
I am now twenty. 20. Two decades in. According to estimations, I’ve lived a quarter of my life. I attend a university, but I have no idea what’s to come. When people ask the question, “What would you like to do?” I never know how to answer, being that life never heads in the direction you plan for. I could say, “Surely, I’ll write books,” or “Surely, I’ll become a reporter,” or even, “Surely, I’ll work in a publishing house,” […]
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gay
by Kyle Labe
I want to talk about my sexuality today, on National Coming Out Day, because it’s something I can speak of unabashedly, and I have no shame whatsoever. I like men, and I like women, and I like people because I’m not going to deny myself any sort of human pleasure available to me in the world. I started to question things as I entered high school a freshman. Then I found solace in a person I thought to be exactly like […]
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