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.”
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 [...]
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 unabridged [...]
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 [...]
