#user: dez.thelez

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Caption: [My wife and I got married in Vegas. A little bit because we didn't want to invite any family we didn't like. We got to be like "Ya know Elvis said there is only eight seats, so your homophobic grandma is gonna have to skip this one. I'm kidding of course, I love that she's hateful". Actually when we originally got married, we did get married in Vegas, but we didn't have Elvis do it. Uh my wife wouldn't let me. Something about her dignity (laughs).

But we did go back recently and we had Elvis renew our vows . I love Elvis. (laughs) I freaked out the whole time, like "Hi Mr. King" and he was like "Hi third lesbian couple of my day". And we pulled up to the chapel they were actually finishing up another lesbian wedding that day. Which made me really happy for gay rights, uh, but also way to steal all my thunder ladies on my special day. Elvis and the lesbians was supposed to be our story and now we got to share it with Sarah and Taryn. And they seem nice.

So we had Elvis officiate a good old lesbian vow renewal, you know. He sang, we sang, I cried, it was beautiful. And I thought that was going to be the end of this nice story that I'd get to tell you guys but no, Elvis pulled my wife and I to the side and he asked us you know, " Do you ladies like the sky? Because there's gonna be an amazing meteor shower tonight and I don't want you ladies to miss it".

And I looked at my wife and I went, "You picked great! This Elvis controls the weather" (laughs) and he was right! There was an incredible meteor shower that night. As we're driving out of Vegas I looked at my wife and I'm like "We got to come here more. Magic Elvis and the lesbians was not on the website. You got to come here to find it".]

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Caption: [When I was learning English, I had no idea what anybody was saying, all of the time! It was just two years of like walking around life like I'd messed up the settings on my Netflix account. Switch it back! I can't! Okay? All the buttons I need are in Mandarin! I had to learn English because my family moved to the states when I was in the fourth grade.

And yeah you may wonder like, was it hard walking around not understanding anybody? Eh. It was fine- it was kinda peaceful. Can't really get bad news if you don't understand the language, you know? It's hard to have a bad day. Was I failing the fourth grade? No clue (laughs), you know? Sometimes my teacher would pull me aside and be like "Wwah wah" and I'd be like "Yeah man, them's the breaks".

Did I face discrimination being the only you know, Spanish kid in my fourth grade Virginia classroom? (laughs) Maybe? I dunno know. Perhaps this isn't the average Latino American experience, you know, but this is my experience. And I was walking around like a rogue Buzz Lightyear in Spanish mode (laughs).

One day I just woke up and I'd hit you know, like 51% English mastery and I was like "Hello world, I am an American. And I would like a hashbrown". And that's what triumph sounds like.]

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Caption: [Tiktok user @/dez.thelez acting out a conversation between herself, and her parents.

Younger me: Dad I think there's something in my closet!

Dad: Oh my god! Is it you? (laughing)

Mom: Ay don't say that, we don't know how that's gonna play out for her yet.

Younger me: Why would I be in my own closet?

Mom: No that's not you that's in the closet, it's that groovy dude. You know him.

Dad: Your mother means the Boogeyman

Younger me: The bogeyman?!

Mom: Oh sí, it's like a bogie wonderland in there.

Younger me: The Bogeyman is in my closet?! Like you're confirming as parents, that there's a bogeyman in there?

Dad: I think we're supposed to say no. There are several bogeymen in there (laughing). It's actually kind of concerning how many you can fit in there. It's like a mass migration to your closet. I don't know why they're doing it.

Younger me: (hard breathing) I'm moving.]

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Caption: [I'm not sure how I made it out of my early 20's. And I know I already lost half of you watching 'cause you're like, "Wow Dez, you are the oldest little 12 year old Mexican boy I have ever seen". I'm a lesbian and I'm 27. And I don't know why I look like I should be singing "Remember me, each time you hear a sad guitar" (laughing).

Anyway, sometimes I forget how much my life has actually changed since I was 21. Like I remember when I first moved out with roommates and all of our living room furniture was inflatable. Do you know what it's like to invite a girl over to your bounce house? It's not as sexy as you think it's gonna be.

It also trips me out that I can like afford stuff now. Not a lot but it's better than when I was like 23 and I went a whole month, where I think I paid for everything in quarters (laughing). Couldn't make it rain on a girl but I could sure make it hail, just like piiink! Baby you better duck!

I wish I could talk to my 20 year old self just once, just be like, "Ya know, that girl you're seeing stole your social security card. Just so you know".

Younger Dez: "She couldn't have, she smells like the ocean".

Dez: "You know what, you deserve everything that's coming your way" (laughing).

Younger Dez: "Okay, uh could I live with you?"

Dez: "Later".]

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Caption: [One of the main questions I get asked in my comments is "How did you know you were gay?" or "How did you come out?". And for one (laughs) when I was younger I used to watch the movies Blue Crush and Stick It on mute, like a lot (laughs). But I didn't really know I was gay until I was like fifteen and I went to this party and a girl sat on my lap and then I didn't sleep again for two days. I was like, "I have a lot to think about and no time!".

Granted, I've never had a man sit on my lap. I don't have that control variable but I think I could hypothesize how that would go. And you could pick the cutest man. You could put Chris Evans on my lap and sure he'd be like, "Let me go" (laughs) but I don't think I'd loose sleep over him. I might be able to stay up 'til one a.m. if I tried really hard but I would get sleepy.

As far as coming out I got very lucky in that my family was very accepting. And when I told my mom she was like, "We know baby". But I was also ridiculous when I was younger and I came out in high school to my politics class via a PowerPoint presentation. I had to do a project on gay rights and I picked to do it on myself (laughs). I got a B minus and that's fair.]

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