#was needed

There is was:

And I literally sobbed. Snot and all. It was disgusting. But they. THEY WERE SO BEAUTIFUL!

Now before i begin, I’ve read the book but I haven’t seen ‘Love, Simon’ yet but am going to very soon and honestly i’m so excited, but also nervous (so please don’t give me any (or many) spoilers ^.^

As you know i’m bi and, after a long period of 3am panicking and self-doubting, I am now a lot more comfortable and proud to be so. However, when I first realised I didn’t just like boys I was terrified. Especially as the only help I had when I was questioning was my best friend at the time saying “well you don’t have to say anything until you get a girlfriend” and we never spoke of it again. My mum was actually the person who helped me, even if she didn’t realise at the time. She showed me this video she found of an experiment in new york with a huge x-ray type machine where couples and families stoo behind them and then walked out and all sorts of families and couples walked out and she said at the end “I wish this is how the world viewed everyone. I don’t understand why people hate others because of their differences.” It was a few months later that I came out to her (after watching Eurovision with my friends no less hehehe).

Move on a few years and I’m finally watching a trailer that puts lgbtq+ stories in the mainstream, instead of as a fantasy or as a side plot where the character dies or is disowned by their family.

Move on a couple months, and the film is out and I’m reading the reviews and reading what people who have seen the film are saying about it. All of this has made me realise that hopefully this film will finally be the film that all of us in the LGBTQ+ community not only wanted, but needed. I relate so much to simon’s fear of coming out, feeling so tired of hiding and the sensation of feeling like you’re holding your breath, and i can’t believe that all of those fears and worries has been put into a major movie.