In this essay, nonbinary writer and journalist Elly Belle honors Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. Blue Sky.”
Queerness and fantasy have long been inextricably tied. When you’re discovering who you are and don’t see an outlet for expressing your gender or sexuality, you imagine it — you craft elaborate scenarios where you can feel fully yourself. Fantasies, of course, come with soundtracks. To celebrate, four writers paid homage to the songs that invite curiosity, discovery, and fantasy in their lives.
I could see myself rebirthed, in my mind’s eye, walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with short hair, tattoos, and piercings — a different gender presentation, a different life. “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra plays in the background, offering another reality, one that I imagine cis, straight people always get to feel. Everything is right. The way people see and think about me on the outside matches who I am inside.
Deep in denial to survive and drowning in my pretend identity as a cisgender and straight teenager, I felt like I was literally stuck in the dark. “Mr. Blue Sky” was a hatch in a pitch black room that let possibility—the possibility of living openly—in through a crack. It made me feel happy and whole enough to believe that specific future could be possible.
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