Crushing my Queerness

How my celebrity crushes kept me in the closet

Grayson Bell
Prism & Pen
Published in
6 min readJul 26, 2022

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Almost everyone forms a crush on a celebrity during their lifetime. There are exceptions, but most people I know have had at least one celebrity crush, and I’ve had my fair share.

The earliest celebrity crushes I can remember having were on Sean Cassidy and Parker Stevenson from the Hardy Boys, Patrick Duffy from Man from

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Grayson Bell
Prism & Pen

An autistic, gay, transgender man writing queer fiction and about LGBTQ issues, focused on the transgender community. (He/Him) http://graysonbell.net/