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“A professor said, ‘Lari, your work is too faggy, your work is too feminine,’” he recalls “It was not sitting well. I was not out of the closet yet.”

“He said, ‘You faggy motherf-----.’

“He was saying ‘faggy’ this and ‘faggy’ that.

But effeminacy, my faggy gestures, felt natural to my body.

It’s meant to be a put-down: earlier, he has made fun of Rodolpho’s singing and faggy airs.