But no one had ever really told me that I could have a full, interesting life without having to like boys. I knew my parents had a bunch of gay friends and that there were gay people in New York City. It took me months to admit what that experience had meant to me, and years to realize that I was a full-on lesbian. I thought all my friends were just abnormally boy-crazy. I thought I’d never be able to love anyone, even though I desperately wanted to be loved in return. I thought they were just really bad at kissing. I wanted to be the Interesting Girl, the protagonist of my own story.
If you were sixteen and you’d never kissed a boy, you were the Ugly Best Friend or the Shy Glasses Nerd. I didn’t really want to go with him, but every movie I’d ever seen taught me that dating cute guys was what cool girls did. A guy I’d been talking about zombies with asked me to the dance. My favorite character was Rue- aloof, bitter, elegant, and super-protective of anyone younger, especially her amnesiac boyfriend. The summer after middle school, I was starting ballet and in love with the anime Princess Tutu. I shoved it to the back of my mind and didn’t think about it any further. A lot of girls go through that phase at your age.” She just said, “Oh, it’s normal to like your friends so much you get those feelings confused with crushes. One time, I told my mom “I think I have a crush on my best friend.” I couldn’t explain why reading about it made my tummy feel gross. He rode a dragon and fought an evil sorceress, and all her friends teased her about having a crush, even though they’d only had one adventurer together. Further on in the series, Adriane met a boy. All my daydreams were about having super-cool best friends like Kara and Emily. I’d spend hours wandering around the local wildlife preserve or talking to my collection of wolf Beanie Babies, searching for magic gems, pretending I was Adriane. And when she and her magical wolf companion charged in to save bubbly, impetuous Kara from dark magic? I couldn’t stop smiling the entire day. My favorite part of the series was when she realized that she couldn’t save the world by herself, and that friendship with other girls made her stronger. The girls I met in books and TV, though? Awesome as anything.Īdriane from the Circle of Magic series had dark hair, a temper, and loved wolves, just like me. Sure, one of the neighborhood kids I hung out with had two moms, but they were old and boring and never seemed to do anything interesting. Kayla Bashe:When I was young, I didn’t really know that a lesbian was a thing I could be. Why is queer representation important to you? Fem: Your novels are notable for their queer themes.
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