It’s the same thing at almost every LGBTQ millennial women’s event I attend—“I’m queer.” “I’m gay.” “I’m questioning.” “I’m bisexual.” “I’m pansexual.” “I’m heteroflexible.” No one is a self-identified lesbian. Not today, not anymore.…
Queer scholar Nikita Shepard sits at a long wooden table—the soft overhead lighting shines down as they dive into another issue of ONE magazine, one of the first pro-gay publications in the United States. This library has been Shepard’s home for the past month as they conduct research in one of the country’s premier collections of LGBTQ scholarly literature. But Shepard isn’t studying in the halls of Berkeley or the Ivy Leagues of the Northeast—they’re in College Station, Texas, in…
