When my da was a boy his father ran a dude ranch catering to hunters, so he grew up with horses. Grampa had this one horse, who’s name escapes me at the moment, that was a really good pack horse. Well, this horse broke it’s leg in a prairie dog hole but my grampa didn’t [...]
On Saturday, I got a good dosage of nice clean social homophobia. I went out to lunch with two friends (one knew I was gay, the other did not), and one girl was talking about her new beau. She turned to me and asked if I had a boyfriend. I said no, but I have a girlfriend. Suddenly, she sat up straight and exclaimed, “YOU’RE BI!” I said, no, “I’m gay.” (Heads turned.) Well, she couldn’t believe it, and asked for a clarification, “You mean you’re lesbian? You like women?” For affirmation, she turned to my other friend who responded with, “She’s a little bit lesbian.”
…because Dyke is no longer a bad word.
I think the world has come to a point where no words are sacred, no boundaries to what you can and cannot say. Of course, in other countries this is different, and you cannot even insult the ruler. BUT, in America, this standard is upsidedown and insideout.
We, Americans, [...]
This should be a private issue. But please read it and don’t take it as a crazy girl’s random shouting.
Well, I am a tomboy, my appearance and my characteristics. I did not find it anything wrong when I was a child. I often teased other girls and was happy to make them cry. I don’t [...]
Hi, my name is Rose. Hi, Rose! I am a newbie on the blog, so I thought I would start out with a rather rough version of my coming out story. I wrote it at the age of 15 in a diary entry (you know, those really small “decorative” journals), and typed it up [...]
I didn’t see this topic posted anywhere around the site, so if I missed it… sorry!
Glamour did an excellent story of Christine Bakke, an ex-ex-gay (lesbian therapied- straight…then lesbian again).
A couple quick excerpts from the article:
While taking the course, she left the auto parts store and took a higher-level job doing production at a small [...]
First of all I hope all of you had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! I thought it would be interesting if together we created a story, I will begin the story line and each of you amazing writers add your input to the story. After we complete our little story we can [...]