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There are pieces of culture that speak to a queer identity before we can articulate those identities for ourselves.
Emmy winner Lena Waithe remembered finding her way as a child of the 90s.
Culture was really Black, really cool, but it was also really straight, she said.
Yet she found one movie that reflected a queer, Black, masc-presenting woman and saw herself.
I recognized her, if you get my drift, said Waithe.
I was wearing T-shirts and jeans and cornrows.
If Im not a little young lesbian in training, I dont know what it is.
Seeing her, there was something that normalized me.
Theyre not making a mockery of drag.
Theyre not making a mockery of the experience of it all, they said.
These discoveries can be profound.
Its so amazing that you have to find this stuff accidentally, said Branum.
