DDDD and Then I told my boyfriend over text that I am a man and he was fine with it cause he’s pansexual. As an editor there explained to Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday, the first translator of the Diary into English, the passages had been cut “because they were either too long, or were likely to offend Dutch Puritan or Catholic susceptibilities…. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Mitgang’s sentence about (unidentified) girls touching each other’s breasts is a direct, albeit unattributed, quote from this essay. I joined a lesbian sorority and was deeply involved in the LGBTQ lifestyle and community in Atlanta. Boys and girls, fascinated by the strange creature, adrenaline pumping, mouth watering picturing the hunt. It’s annoying, but unfortunately, something I just have to deal with in straight spaces, which is why I’ve joined my school’s GSA and a queer discord server.

It hurt so much that I spent a long time just praying that I could be “normal” and that my dad and I could move on with life like we did before. I was fortunate to visit Chile several times during my childhood, but it wasn't until last year that the topic of my sexuality came up in conversation with friends over there. It’s now nearly six years later, and while I’m in a committed relationship with a girl I've love for almost two years, I still identify as bisexual. Although there is a huge lack of its portrayal in the media, bisexuality is a real thing, and it deserves to be talked about as much as any other sexual orientation.

I memory blocked a lot from that night but I think he took my computer phone etc all forms of communication because I remember sneaking onto the family computer to post on a tumblr page that I was still alive or something.Nonetheless, there is a popular perception that Otto took out some of the diary’s sex-related material.