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I LEARNED HOW TO BE GAY ON AO3
A gay, fantasy-mystery road trip AU. Bee I am gay, I wre gay fanfictn, and I am not out real life to many people my extend fay. Durg my mid-twenti, h out of a bout of reer burnout, I had a revelatn — or, as I learned om works on AO3, ‘gay panic’.
Alex is Supergirl’s adopted sister, and season two of the TV show, when she was her late twenti, she realised that she was gay. There was so much about beg gay that I didn’t know, and I didn’t know where to start.
I had been readg fanfictn sce I was fourteen, even though prr to my gay panic I had stopped readg them for years (strivg to keep myself om fancial , remember? It wasn’t jt the fact that there are amazgly good wrers who tell great stori, but that so many of them are tnal and are stori about Alex g out, about her learng gay culture and lgo — and I learned right alongsi her.