There was a boy in our neighborhood named Tony. He was a bit younger than my buddies, but large for his age -bigger than me. But Tony never played with us. We invited him, but he didn't want to. He preferred to play house. He had dolls and a playhouse. He got along great with the girls next door. We didn’t get too close to all of that. There was something about it that made the rest of us guys nervous. So we made fun of Tony and called him sissy. One kid called him a "queer," so the rest of us did too, even though we didn’t know what that meant. We didn’t know any better. Or did we? Somewhere inside, it felt wrong to tease him. Mostly we ignored him. That was easy. He was different.

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越界

我们附近有一个男孩叫托尼。他比我的哥们小一点，但就他的年龄而言，他的个头很大——比我还大。但是托尼从来没有和我们一起玩过。我们邀请他，但他不想。他更喜欢过家家。他有洋娃娃和一个剧场。他和隔壁的女孩相处得很好。我们并没有太接近所有这些。有一些事情让我们其他人感到紧张。所以我们取笑托尼并称他为娘娘腔。一个孩子称他为“酷儿”，所以我们其他人也都这样称呼他，尽管我们不知道那是什么意思。我们不知道更好。还是我们？在里面的某个地方，逗他感觉不对。大多数情况下，我们忽略了他。那很简单。他不一样。