“I had no choice but to just be myself.” Bach Mai on living in “a glass closet” and never feeling the pressure to conform.
In first grade I had a crush on one of my classmates and just said to his mom, “Oh—I think your son is really cute.” I don’t think she was expecting that. I was fully naive of what I may have been presenting or revealing to someone. This would have been the early, mid ’90s. In terms of my sexuality and my identity, I was always fully myself—I was never very hindered in that aspect.
I went to an amazing high school in Texas, where there were upperclassmen that were out and proud and accepted. Whether in Texas or not, growing up is always a rough time, but in spite of everything, I had no choice but to just be myself. I wasn’t trying to be a warrior. I was talking to a former classmate, and he recounted a time when someone had said something to me and I just turned around and—excuse the profanity—I said “fuck you.
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