They were all girls named Emily and Annie. But there wasn’t anything about someone of a different background, you know. I normally got those from my town library rather than my school. SF: There were LGBT-oriented books for teens by Julie Anne Peters, and Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind. What did worry me was that I was secretly gay. I had no problems explaining to people what my Iranian heritage meant, and trying to be a good representative. As a teenager, I had this outgoing personality, and I was class president and doing all kinds of things but inside was going to my car to cry. This was pre- Ellen of course, and given the culture my parents are from-where a husband and wife is very important, and kids, and then those kids grow up to be doctors hopefully-I spent a lot of years in this silent fear and anger. I had these inclinations, and was really terrified by them. It didn’t bother me that she was animated, or a mouse it bothered me that she was female. Sara Farizan: My first crush, as early as age 5, was Gadget the Mouse from Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers. “It didn’t bother me that my first crush was animated, or a mouse it bothered me that she was female.”
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