LGBTQ+ people are used to unfulfilled longing. But we deserve more [lgbtqnation.com]
By Eleni Stephanides, Illustration: Shutterstock, LGBTQ Nation, July 19, 2023 Though it wasn’t explicitly marketed as LGBTQ+ literature, I consider Middlesex my first foray into a queer narrative. It played a pivotal role for my then 15-year-old self in the early 2000s, and I would return to it many times in the years that followed. The character of Calliope is intersex, but they live their first twenty years with a female gender expression. As a closeted teenager also grappling with...