Inspiring Story Of A Brave First Love | Andrea Gibson - video Dailymotion

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Do you remember a love like this?  A touching inspiring message from Andrea Gibson about her first love, challenges facing her true self and showing the world who she really is.

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00:00 I don't think I ever really kissed any boys.

00:04 I think my tongue had just been punching their tongues.

00:08 But as soon as you loved me, all my callus went away.

00:11 My hands so soft it hurt to pray.

00:14 You picked me up at my Catholic college and I'd sleep for hours till we reached your house.

00:19 The first time in my life I'd ever rested.

00:22 The first time I didn't have to play a role I'd never wanted to get.

00:26 That's the medicine it is to be finally seen by someone.

00:30 You'd point to my chest and say what just broke.

00:33 I'd throw my body in the river but you'd say my name right and I'd become a stone that

00:38 skipped.

00:39 Do you remember the first record where we didn't have to change the pronouns to sing

00:43 along?

00:44 We'd gone so many years without music that knew us.

00:48 Music that knew you could arch your back and I'd have proof that the earth was round.

00:54 Bless who we were then, bless who we still are.

00:57 My straight friends tease me because all my best friends are my ex-loves but a wise heart

01:03 told me it's the most tender part of queerness.

01:06 How we've all lost so much family.

01:08 When we find people we call family, we'll do almost anything to not let go.

01:13 Thank goodness for that ice storm that trapped us in that cheap hotel where I drank an entire

01:19 bottle of something awful and finally told you I loved you since we were 15 playing basketball

01:26 under a flickering street light beside the poorest part of the sea.

01:31 The ice storm froze the world outside into a photograph of the past while I kneeled down

01:38 and kissed my future onto your kneecaps.

01:40 Two decades talking to Jesus, that was the first time I heard him talk back.

01:46 Months later, church bells ringing through my dorm room, I wrote my senior thesis about

01:52 you and told no one how hard I was praying to stop hiding myself in metaphor, to one

01:58 day find the courage to carve the truth into the chapel door.

02:03 Holy were all the hours I spent picking out my outfit the night you took me to my first

02:09 queer bar in Portland, Maine, the biggest city I'd ever walked through.

02:14 I was so excited and so scared that we'd be spotted or killed on our way inside.

02:21 We sat in the parking lot forever till I changed my mind and you drove me home, mascara pouring

02:28 down my brand new boy shirt.

02:30 I never guessed there'd come a time like the winter we traveled north to visit your mother,

02:36 asleep when we arrived after midnight.

02:39 We lit our room with candles and rested a joint in the center of the bed.

02:44 Neither of us were any good at smoking, but we pulled her welcome into our lungs like

02:50 it was 100 years of oxygen.

02:52 Up until then, we didn't know anyone in the whole world who would celebrate us, wiping

02:58 the steam from the glass to see each other blushing in the same bathroom mirror in the

03:04 morning.

03:05 I was thinking about that last May when I was invited back to my Catholic college for

03:10 the first time.

03:12 You sitting in the front row beside the nuns and the school president and the teacher who

03:19 had given me an A on the manuscript I'd been too afraid to write your name in.

03:25 Mandy, I know so much has not gotten better.

03:30 I know so much has not gotten easier, but that moment knocked the wind out of me.

03:37 Time, finally being the kind of father we all deserve.

03:41 The world, finally turning its porch light on for us.

03:45 It was so bright I could feel the freckles on my 15-year-old face warming in its glow.

03:51 I could feel hope traveling back in time to find us, to whisper into our chests, "There

03:58 will be music for you one day."

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