Day 4 : girls like girls like boys do

"You're a girl, act like one"

"Sit like a lady"

"Girls don't talk loud, don't laugh out loud"

"Be quiet"

"Silence"

"You're a girl, have some respect"

...

"I said I like girls."

My mother looked alarmed, shocked even, "There is no such thing."

"All my life I've been acting like a girl but I can't love one?"

"No."

"Well our Lesbian Jesus said girls like girls like boys do, nothing new...I'm real and I don't feel like boys..."

I shut the door of my closet and pull myself in, once again.