![]() Queer people who come out in their twenties, in their thirties, or later don’t seem to fully relate to the experience of becoming gay and becoming an adult at the same time. It has been said that gayness arrests and delays adolescence (spoiler alert: straight men are also childlike), that our repression and shame weaves into us a velvet rage. But such a sentiment forgets those of us who moved fast and understates the sheer drama of entering adulthood already equipped with a gay identity, urgently seeking its validation through independence, love, and, most of all, sex. Gay adults and our allies seem to fantasize endlessly about gay teens, especially in faraway places, as the assumed benefactors of even the dullest media representation. ![]() Do LGBT teens need a plucky rom-com? When exactly did they ask for one? The gay teen imaginary, anchored partly in memory and partly in social-science research, appears to us as suicidal, bullied, lonely, even sexually curious-but never outright horny. Horny doesn’t quite cover it, though-as youth we crave not simply gay sex but an adult gay sex life.
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