00:00there was this girl in senior year of high school i went over to her house and we were watching
00:05rent and her head was on my shoulder and we were you know laying on her bed and i was
00:11like
00:11yeah not breathing yeah 525 that was in 600 minutes looking back i was like oh but the
00:18thing is simultaneously that same year i liked the boy and he became my first kiss at a point
00:24in my life because i wasn't a public figure like there wasn't a need to come out to my mom
00:30right
00:31it wasn't until i booked good trouble which was you know such a special queer character and i thought
00:37to myself this alice kwan has the potential to be a role model i need to liberate myself irl so
00:47i sat my
00:47mom down in 2018 on may 27th essentially i said the character was queer and so am i she was
00:55definitely shocked i mean she drank like six bottles of water during this conversation i think
01:00she was just kind of taking it in yeah and you know i was bawling but there was this weight
01:07lifted
01:07because i had the conversation even though she was kind of hesitant and said some things that made me
01:14mad i think slowly throughout the years she's realizing that these opportunities have actually
01:20opened up because i've opened up it's so funny because when i came out to my dad on the other
01:26hand
01:26because he goes to lady gaga concerts for sport you know shows up with a rainbow t-shirt the next
01:31day
01:31for us to remember that you know our moms and our dads are going through life for the first time
01:39as well and they're they can make mistakes and also to forgive the past versions of them when we
01:46were younger i mean it's so much that's the asian american experience yeah you know because we are the
01:50generation to single-handedly shift the narrative because of crazy rich asians because of you know
01:56kamala because of all of these things that have happened in our lifetime we have to make sure that
02:02history doesn't repeat itself even within the family group chat
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