This June was a month of double celebration in Norway.
Firstly, the gender-neutral marriage law was passed, making Norway only the sixth country in the world to legalise same sex marriage. Furthermore, this was in the form of eradicating the gender specific language in the previous marriage law and rewriting the constitution.
Secondly of course, gay pride [...]
I deleted a hundred sentences before I decided on the right ones. They should make the cards bigger. The ones that come with flowers. Don’t they know how hard it is to sum up love in 2-3 sentences. Then it came to me.
I’ve never loved a heart as beautiful as yours STOP
Every thing about you [...]
“Sometimes my muse sings beautiful arias, but mostly she just belches the alphabet.”
I spend my days telling lies — useful lies, elaborate lies, even blatant lies. In other words, I write fiction. I don’t make much money doing it. And so far, Oprah hasn’t called to talk about my latest work on her show. So [...]
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.”
It seems a running theme with me would be anger but really it’s not so, I just use TLL to vent when I am and I don’t really feel like blogging when I’m happy so sorry if my stuff bums you out but I know I’m not the only one out here to feel angry [...]
I have not been here in a very long time. So much has gone on in my life I really couldn’t fit it all in. I am posting this to say that I am back. I am ready to write and I am diggin the new site!
One thing I have come to realize in my [...]
Speaking of letters…I would like to introduce you all to a new blog entitled Queer Love. It’s a submission based blog, much like TLL, but the project is in search of love letters written by queers. Here’s a bit from the blogs main page.
There is nothing more intimate or soul exposing than a love letter. [...]