This interview has been edited and abridged.
Do you get a lot of recognition on the street?
I wasn’t home the whole time the games were broadcast so I didn’t see any of them with my parents in Nova Scotia. We drove to Cape Breton to my grandparents yesterday and back to Halifax today. My mom and I stopped at this roadside restaurant. I was wearing a KN95 mask and one of the restaurant employees said, “I recognize you by your earrings.” I swear it was like 10 women walking out of the kitchen, like clowns getting out of a clown car. They kept coming out to say hello.
How would you describe your personal style?
How can I describe what can be printed in The Times… I’ll put it this way: I wear a lesbian. I saw many tweets after my debut where I didn’t speak publicly about my orientation or identity from gay people, like: we can say
I definitely dress more manly. I either wear completely neutral tones or if I wore something bright it would be really flashy and loud. Even when I go to an event, I want to feel comfortable.
If you see me in the summer, I’m one of those people who hit Old Navy for all the horrible printed shirts I can find, or go to thrift stores for all the great Hawaiian dad shirts.
What was going through your mind as you thought about your appearance on the show?
I started digging up the rabbit before the show. I realized that there is a file Twitter AccountWhich talks about what people are wearing on the show.
I was like, OK, I want to make sure I’m wearing something that I feel like I’ll look good in. I was more concerned with being comfortable with what I was wearing.
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