By Mya Lucia
Of all the wisdoms you taught me in life,
“everyone will be bisexual one day”
was, and always will be,
the most significant
I can remember one of the many times you said it in my childhood,
in the car, driving the long bend into our neighbourhood,
so clearly and confidently from the passenger seat,
as if a core manifesto to the party of your life
You were my first ally
before the world ever knew my sexuality,
before I even knew it myself.
But perhaps you did know it.
Maybe that’s why you told me,
to teach me something
about myself,
Or maybe
to teach me something
about you.
But what you did teach me
(an atheist who prays to George Michael every Easter)
is that
Queer acceptance does not merely co-exist with Christianity,
but is foundational to it.
Mya Lucia is a PhD student and lover of tequila, senior dogs, and Sapphic literature, based in the North West of England.