Her next song urged me to “Let ‘Em Talk.” And by the time I got to the third track, “Woman” I was belting along as I sped up the 101. “One, two, three, four,” Kesha said softly, opening her album like she was talking just to me. My phone told me that Kesha’s new album, Rainbow, had just been released and I clicked play. I left one of those friend’s houses to make the long trek back from the city of LA to the suburb of who cares. “I’m a girl” is a harder sell when you look like the same boy they’d always known. Dressed in parent-approved drag, I left them confused. While I’d decided not to tell my parents for a few more months, I did use this time to come out to my old friends. In that life, I was out to everyone but I wouldn’t be out on this trip. I pulled my remaining boy clothes from the back of my closet and removed my red nail polish - the faint stain reminding me of a new life I was starting to build. Three months after coming out to myself, I got on a plane to visit my parents.
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