Can a Boring Old ‘G’ Still Hang with the LBTQIAs?
Ben Kawaller at L.A. Pride in 2023.
Twenty years ago, I was a rare gay teen at Pride. Now, I’m not even sure I count as queer.
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My first Pride parade was around the year 2000, when I was 15. My parents and I marched with PFLAG—Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays—a now quaint-sounding organization my folks joined after I came out, to help my mother accept the idea that her son would die of AIDS.
I was hoping, of course, that I would meet some boy at the parade. Sadly, no suc…
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