![]() While having lunch, after the initial chitchat, her dad asked her what it was that she wanted to discuss and after hesitating a bit, she told him that she was gay. But after hesitating for a while, one day she invited her dad for lunch, telling him that she wanted to talk to him about something important. She thought a lot about it and she was worried how he’ll react to it. At some point she wanted to tell her dad about it. One of my friends who was straight when she was in high school, came out gay when she graduated from college. One of my favourite coming out stories is this one. I was worried about how the story was going to end, and what might happen to the main characters – things didn’t look good, it was a conservative time, after all. Nancy Garden captures all this beautifully in her book. Parents, who might be liberal in principle, will definitely have a problem if their own child comes out as gay, and will try to change their child, give them hell, or hide that fact from others. They’ll definitely lose their jobs, and it will be impossible to get another one. In that era, if a person comes out, they might get expelled from high school. It was probably one of the first lesbian stories told in YA fiction. ‘Annie on My Mind’ was published in 1982, exactly forty years back. What happens after that forms the rest of the story. If two young women fall in love and people discover that, all hell will break loose. If that is all there is to it, then there is not much, isn’t it? Two people meet and fall in love and live happily everafter – what is the fun in that? Where is the drama? Well, this is the late ’70s or the early ’80s. Before long they become friends and then magic happens. ![]() She stumbles into this girl whose name is Annie and they end up talking. ![]() One day she is at the museum exploring around, when she hears someone singing. She wants to study architecture when she goes to college. Liza is in the final year of high school. I discovered Nancy Garden’s ‘ Annie on My Mind‘ recently and decided to read it today. ![]()
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