She’s a pink shapeshifter who can take on any form, from domestic animals to fantastical beasts to a teenage girl. That’s how things start off with Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz) and the other main character in her story, Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed). So when I was watching Netflix’s adaptation of ND Stevenson’s beloved, best-selling graphic novel, Nimona, this weekend, and those exact words came flying off the screen, I had to pause it because I felt like my heart had gotten punched in the face. She said, “No! I’m asking you not to tell them FOR YOU. “You’re still so embarrassed I’m not straight,” I said to her. It was silly at that point everyone knew. But she never relented, and years later when our lifelong friendship was coming to a heartbreaking end, she again reiterated that she didn’t want me to tell her parents I’m gay. We grew up in the rural south and I was the first person in any of our social circles to declare myself a lesbian, so I thought maybe my best friend just needed some time to get okay with it, and then I’d tell her mom and dad, who’d taken me in in high school and become like surrogate parents to me. When I came out to my best friend in my mid-20s, she asked me not to come out to her parents.
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