![]() ![]() I can’t help imagining the scenario that teenagers struggling with their sexuality face today. As I think back to that night, I can’t help but wonder how that girl’s life- my life-would have been different if the dance had taken place in 2015 instead of 1985. I know because I am the girl in the picture. The sexual identity struggles and confusion that had been quietly welling up within her since middle school were finally emerging for all to see. In the photo, she is attempting to look cool and smug, but her eyes betray sadness. However, at her school, she was the only one in on the twist. Why the tux? She had recently heard of a “gender bending” prom at a nearby school, one where all the girls had worn tuxes along with their dates. She was heading for her high school’s Christmas dance, and her parents had taken pictures beforehand. I came across a photo the other day of a fifteen-year-old girl dressed in a tuxedo, complete with red bow tie and tails, standing in front of a Christmas tree.
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