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Boy Scout
from "Trauma Scenarios"
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You're in a tent, and you're thirteen years old. Literally everyone you know at the time is a homophobe, and so the topic of conversation turns to how gay everyone is. It seems like mockery, but then the person you're in a tent with pulls down his pants and shows you his buttocks. "What, are you gay?!" you ask, every bit of homophobia you've internalized from your hateful environment falling from your lips. The boy says, "No, no. I'm not gay. If I were gay I would have showed you my penis." You both silently decide to leave it at that.


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