Since our relationship looks straight to the uninformed, it can be very easy for people to make assumptions about us.

And certainly there are benefits to this. No one is ever going to harm us or give us a hard time for existing together or showing affection.
But especially working with college kids, it’s important to me to be visibly queer.

Representation in media is great but seeing someone like you in real life doing okay? That’s important too
I also teach game design in a small town area. So I get a lot of college aged men in my class. Every semester we talk about representation and accessibility and there’s always some pushback from the “git gud” crowd.
So it’s also important to me to be visibly queer for them. To remind them that their voices aren’t the most important in a room. And to get them used to listening.

I started teaching this class when I was like 23. Barely older than some of them
It took me a while to get over worrying about what they thought of me and instead show up and talk about the design of Stardew Valley and the value of games having a super easy mode for those people there for the story.
I don’t know if I had a point to this thread beyond wanting to talk about it being important to me to not be perceived as straight in most scenarios
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