No, but give me a Race who grew up in a supportive home.
Who was always taught that you love who you love, and it doesn't matter if they’re a boy or a girl or anything, just as long as you love them.
And give me a Race who realized he was gay very young and not thinking anything about telling people. because he knew he was going to love a boy and who cares, as long as he finds love?
Give me seven-year-old Race walking around his house with books on his head and telling people he was practicing to be a princess so he could marry his very own Prince Charming one day and he had only ever seen princesses marry princes and all he wanted to do was marry his prince one day.
Give me his sister never letting him forget it, even though his mom told him he could be a prince himself and still marry the handsomest prince in the world.
Give me Race seeing Spot five minutes after being dropped off at campus and instantly texting his sister that he found his prince.
Give me Race falling hopelessly in love with Spot as they became friends, but Spot being so straight passing from his messed up childhood that Race can’t figure out if he’s gay or not, and being scared to ask in case his isn’t and he messes things up.
Give me Race awkwardly trying to get him to tell him without directly asking until finally, finally, Spot catches on and just kisses him.
Give me a Spot Conlon whose childhood was totally the opposite of Race’s.
Give him homophobic assholes for parents who don’t let him play with anybody who has any chance of being supportive of gay people and gay rights.
Give me a Spot who knows everything they’re saying is wrong, because who the hell are they to say that people can’t fall in love with whoever they want to?
But give me a Spot who is brainwashed into believing it, so that by the time he’s eleven and realizes that he like boys, it literally makes him sick to his stomach.
Give me a Spot who’s scared to even think the words, “I’m gay” because he’s terrified his father will find out somehow.
Give me Spot not telling anybody, because all his friends and family share the same homophobic views of his father.
Give me Spot not even coming to terms with his own sexuality until he’s almost out of highschool, and even then not telling anybody.
Give me a Spot who goes off to college as far from New York as possible to get away from his family and not be scared of maybe finding a boyfriend.
Give me Spot seeing Race and instantly knowing that that boy was the he wanted to date.
But give me Spot being so conditioned to acting straight and not telling anybody that he doesn’t know to tell Race.
Give me Spot getting his hopes up over and over again that maybe this cute gay boy might just like him, and then give me Race bumbling to explain his accidental revelation and just crushing Spot’s fleeting hope.
Give me Race finally saying something so obvious that it can’t be explained away and just swearing and blushing and give me Spot realizing that he really did like him and just kissing him.
And give me Spot so insecure, scared that Race is just messing with him and scared that his family will find out and just plain scared.
Give me Race who’s willing to sit with him and talk and help him through whatever he needs help with, who’s willing to talk as much as he needs to to convince Spot he really does care.
Give me Race slowly building Spot up from the mess his family made him, helping him see that really there isn’t anything wrong with him and that it’s absolutely okay that he feels something other than friendship for boys.
Give me Spot proudly presenting Race as his boyfriend at graduation, finally not scared of his family, and give me him kissing Race right in front of his family and then pulling him away by the hand, not caring that the assholes he had to call family for years no longer were willing to call him their son or nephew or brother or anything.
Give me Race standing up when they finally get married and just pointing right at his sister and yelling, “I told you I would marry a prince one day!” And give me Spot blushing furiously and pulling him down but secretly being so happy that he finally found somebody who loves him unconditionally like his family didn’t.
Give me Race never giving up on Spot, even on his worst days, and always keeping Spot grounded no matter what.
