I GREW UP IN a small Catholic town in northern New Mexico. If I created a documentary about teenage lesbian life there in the 1990s, no one would appear in it — not even me. A photo shows me towering over the two friends I went to my junior prom with; one of them happened to be one of the two openly gay boys at my school.
In 2003, New Mexico named the whiptail lizard its state reptile. All whiptails are female, so they’ve been nicknamed the “lesbian lizard.” If threatened by a predator,
