A Slut's Guide To Happiness Podcast - Episode 8: Surviving Conservative Rural America as a Closeted Queer Teenager - with T.Max
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Coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer was a lot harder several decades ago. Many people coped with the fear of unsafety by staying in the closet, resulting in the less often discussed experience of coming out in middle age or later in life. While there's more acceptance and support of queer lives today that makes it a little easier and safer for young people to come out, there are still many parts of the country where being LGBTQ is hard or even dangerous. Local queer community leader, T.Max, came of age in conservative rural America in the 1980s where they coped with bullying and physical assault for perceived queerness by staying in the closet. Their story of survival and their choice to come out decades later at age 50 is relatable for young queer people struggling to survive today, as well as older adults exploring what T.Max refers to as a “second adolescence”.
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Okay.
I'm such a dork.
Yes, you are, you are.
Well, folks, welcome to the Dorkiness and
a Slut's Guide to Happiness, where your body is perfectly imperfect.
And it's safe to be as sexual, kinky, queer, or slutty as you want.
Today I will be talking with T-Maxx, a queer community leader and
wonderful friend who is a lighthearted ball of giggling energy and
free wood sprite.
I wanna show you their eyebrows.
I walked in today and saw them and
they are a perfect example of their wood sprite little energy.
So if you wanna show, they have glitter.
I thought that it was a mistake and
they accidentally ran into a ***** that was touching their face.
But it's just their beautiful, fabulous makeup.
I don't have to show it on camera.
Hopefully it is, yes.
Yes.
But so this energy of just fabulousness that T-Maxx wears in the world now,
that is from their eyebrows to their spirit to their Jewish grandma energy out
there, that hasn't always been the case, as with a lot of people who are on
the winding journey of finding themselves.
So today we're gonna be talking about a specific tough but
common experience of growing up as a closeted queer teenager in a religious
family and conservative part of rural America because man,
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