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May we all have the messy self-confidence of baby-queer Bella Thorne

Sep. 28, 2017
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Where were you when you found out that Bella Thorne had publicly shamed her ex-boyfriend for bailing out of a threesome with her and her current girlfriend? Because I was on the L.A. Metro, on the way to work so that I could do my job of bringing Excellent Content to the readers here at Adolescent dot net, and in the approximately four hours since I made this discovery nothing has been the same.

Look. I'm 24 years old. I stopped watching Disney Channel over a decade ago. (What!? Okay, fine... six or seven years ago.) So, despite my avid love for anything that is both famous and gay, it didn't really register as important when I saw in August 2016 that the pre-teen fame factory's latest wild-eyed starlet du jour had come out as bisexual on Twitter. And I don't really care about men, so when everyone else was busy freaking out about Thorne and ex Tyler Posey's aggressively flamboyant Twitter PDA, I'll have you know I was Very Busy rewatching the entirety of The L Word for about the 11th time.

But then you know, her outsize oversharing got a lot gayer, and I felt compelled to tune in. And, uh, wow. Did anyone else know this was happening? And if so, why didn't they tell me?

(And who is Tana Mongeau? Am I just not hip anymore or something?)

Now, as a fellow Greedy Bisexual or whatever it is they're calling us these days, I'd like to make one thing clear.  I support Bella's right to date as many men, women, or nonbinary individuals as she wants, and to be as public or sloppy about it as she wants. This is not an anti-Bella Thorne post. This is a very emphatically pro-Bella Thorne post. Because, damn, any famous person willing to be this out and proud deserves a standing O.

No, Bella, I didn't mean it that—you know what, never mind.