This LGBTQ+ History Month, we’re asking writers to reflect on a moment in queer pop culture history that has allowed them to experience queer liberation in their own lives. Check out our coverage here.
It was 2017, and I was sifting through a hundred pages of printed-out poetry, essays, photography, and art. Earlier that day, I’d gone to my college campus’s library and paid — at a painful 10 cents per page — to have the soon-to-be journal issue printed in its entirety.
I was just starting…