I think it's partly because I grew up in Illinois, which is a blue state, but I'm from really rural Illinois, where there are huge communities of queer people that want to be seen.
"For over 15 years I've had the privilege and pleasure of being upstaged and outshone night after night by that little ball of fluffy indifference. He came into my life when I had nothing, and set me on the path to a career I could only dream of."