I tell him how my parents have not responded well to my coming out, how my dad has told me that he isn’t going to pay for “that kind of education.” The hot, young, white professor says, “Why don’t you just divorce them?” betraying not a stitch of emotion in his face. I’m just taking it because I saw the words “Gay and Lesbian” in the title.

He teaches my Post-Structuralist Literary Theory-Gay and Lesbian Literature class, where I don’t really understand anything I read. I am a freshman in college, sitting in the student union café across from the hot, young, white professor I have a huge crush on. Theory + Practice is a series supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.