A Beloved Teacher’s Casual Homophobia Still Hurts

“The Last Analog Childhood,” an excerpt from My Bad by Hugh Ryan

Señora was my favorite teacher for the first half of seventh grade, one of the few who didn’t seem to hate spending her wild and precious days getting tweens to care about something. She had us write skits where the characters from Beverly Hills, 90210 inexplicably found reasons to discuss our vocabulario words, every girl doing her best Shannen Doherty (RIP), pulling on a scrunchy and asking, “Don-DE ES-ta el presiDENTe?” Our other teachers were old, ancient, forty; Señora did a Mariah Carey impression that was fully off-key but got the essence of her. (In that, she was my early training for understanding drag.)

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