Every high school has their token stereotypes. Why, in my day I had to spend a Saturday morning detention with the brainy nerd, a ginger athlete, a basket case in dire need of Head & Shoulders, a ginger Princess and criminal who can rock a jean jacket. We got into some wacky situations before having an emotional meeting of the minds that gave us a common thread to bond over despite our social caste. In the end the ginger princess fell for the jean jacket bad boy, the basket case got a makeover and the ginger athlete went on to coach a kid’s hockey league. Good times. Or maybe that was ‘The Breakfast Club.’
Anyway, Gillian Anderson was the girl in your class that was a lesbian for awhile, but decided to quit the cooch for a trunk driver named Slick Rick With A Big Rig…
Anderson on being a temporary lez: “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school, and then I was in a relationship with a punk rock drug addict who…”
Wait, a lesbian relationship? “Yeah, yeah, well it’s… You know, I’m old enough that I can talk about that,” she says, before resuming her list: “And then I was in a relationship with somebody who was way, way older than me. Everything that that kind of anarchistic attitude brings—the inappropriate behavior it leads to—was how I chose to be in the world at that time, which was, you know, not what people did.”
Anderson on why she didn’t announce being the Diet Coke of Lesbians: “If I had thought I was 100% gay, would it have been a different experience for me? Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation? It’s possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys.”
I give this one shrug and nod. Wasn’t just about everyone was a bi-sexual for at least a week at some point in their adolescence? I always stuck to chasing boys because I couldn’t stand the thought dealing with some of the bitches at my school any longer than I had to, but I suppose if I had went to an all girls school and got really hammered on Scope and every male in a 30 mile radius was an eunuch…
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