it’s so wild to me that heterosexual people can talk about their first crushes when they were in elementary school and how they had their first awkward kiss at really young ages or they would chase boys on the playground to try and kiss them and that’s all fine and normal and cute but no one considers the fact that lgbt people experience this too like….i had elementary school-aged crushes on my girl friends and spent hours talking to them on the phone every day after school with butterflies in my stomach and together we daydreamed about throwing extravagant parties together and being movie stars or high-fashion models or pop stars or writers and together we held hands on the playground and kissed behind the trees in my backyard…the innocence of a childhood crush does not only exist for straight people….please stop seeing homosexuality as inherently sexual because when you do that, you are erasing all of the girls whose braids i memorized like a pattern and whose faces i can’t recall but still have love for and their stories deserve to be told and remembered and passed down like folk songs
