“There are people out there who get annoyed at the story that Djuna barnes, rather than identify as a lesbian, preferred to say that she ‘just loved Thelma.’ Gertrude Stein reputedly made similar claims, albeit not in those exact terms, about Alice. I get why it’s politically maddening, but I’ve also always thought it a little romantic – the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.”
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