"It was 2001, and I was in seventh grade. I had a middle part and braces and I'm not sure it even registered with me that gay people existed. A nearby terrorist attack had recently rocked the Long Island suburb where I lived to its core, but the other big thing happening in my life was that I had a cool new friend who wanted me to come over and watch a show that she'd been taping on VHS: Alias. ⁠ ⁠ Alias ran for five wonderful seasons and starred Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a woman who thinks she works for the CIA, until she confesses to her fiancé what she really does for a living and so her boss has him killed — that's when she learns she's actually working for the bad guys. Heartbroken and mad, she decides to become a double agent, helping the CIA track the activities of said bad guys, who are loosely described as former CIA agents who 'went freelance.'⁠ ⁠ If we're to see a metaphor in this, what is more canonically gay than the fear that if you tell the people you love who you really are, the truth will literally kill them? ⁠ ⁠ I soon learned that Sydney Bristow was a kind of a secret agent Barbie, with multiple outfit changes per episode as she traveled the world kicking ass and stealing important things. No matter what she wore or how her accent changed, though, one thing stayed the same: She was always hot. So hot that it was almost alarming." -@gabriellekorn⁠ ⁠ At the 🔗 in bio, read how Alias helped writer Gabrielle Korn realize she was gay as a teenager. ✍️ @gabriellekorn 📷 ABC #R29Article #Alias #JenniferGarner