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I’d always had mor csh on girls, but I thought had more to do wh wantg to be <em>like</em> them, rather than be <em>wh</em> them. In the late '90s, televisn was my greatt source of fort—the place were I went to to fd versns of myself reflected back at me. The only queer woman I ever saw on screen, however, was Ellen Degener. And while I thought she was hilar, as a Lata, I didn’t really feel much of a nnectn to her. </p><style data-emotn="css aeyldl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The followg year, when I fally me to terms wh my sexualy and began to e out to iends, the only relatable character on TV that I uld fd was Rickie Vazquez, the openly gay Lato bt iend played by Wilson Cz old rens of <em>My So-Called Life</em>. It was a difficult and isolatg time. 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