How (Not) to Meet Your Heroes
by Jasper Sanchez I’m not the kind of guy you want to bring as a plus one to a book signing. Trust me on this. I spent the entire time I was in waiting to see Alison Bechdel working up the courage to say something eloquent about how her portrayal of butch identity in Fun Home meant so much to me as a baby queer trying to puzzle out the intricacies of my own sexuality and gender identities only to get to the front of the line, freeze, and stutter, simply, “Thanks.” Or, [...]