Flamer Sapphic they internalized the lesson that

they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger

Behind the scenes

part family saga about an immigrant family’s struggles to find a sense of belonging

and felt displaced in all of it

Flamer Sapphic they internalized the lesson thatBy: Mike Curato This raw, emotionally honest graphic novel tells the story of Aiden Navarro: fourteen years old and still figuring things out. I know Im not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. Theyre mean, and scary, and theyre always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe. It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's