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We share our stories and now a few of The Lesbian Lifestyle’s authors are ready and willing to share their advice. My name is Kelly Leszczynski. I’m the managing editor of TLL and one of the five advice columnists on the TLL Advice Panel . Over the years I have received many emails from readers of TLL asking for advice. I love to listen to people, but I’m not always sure on my own brand of advice. This is why I recruited four other TLL authors with different backgrounds and expertise to help me help you out.

Do you have a question you would like to ask a group of five diverse women? I bet you do! So just fill out the form below and click on the send button. It’s that easy. Once we receive your question all five panelists will review your question and give you our advice. We will tackle it all. Life, love, loss… you send it in and we’ll give you our two cents times five! All questions and answers will be posted on TLL’s main page within 5-14 days of submission. Sign up to TLL’s RSS to make sure you don’t miss any questions!

Before you send anything in I’d like you to meet the TLL Authors/Advice columnists.

The TLL Advice Panelists

Kelly Leszczynski

TLL Author Name: GoldstarDyke
Personal Blog: Brainclouds
Age: 32
Came out at age: 19

Bio: I’ve been writing about, listening to, and loving women for over two decades. I was the founder of Michigan’s now dismantled largest online lesbian community, Suburban Lesbians of Michigan. I’m one of those out of the womb lesbians. My first crush was in kindergarten and she was in high school. Even back then I had a thing for older women, and I haven’t looked back since!!! I’m in a wonderful relationship with an amazing woman. She’s five years younger than me, funny how life never ceases to surprise us!  (see my comment on loving older women above) I’m one of those people that likes to bring up deep conversations at the dinner table. I wear my heart on my sleeve, which of course also makes me a hopeless romantic. I feel that as long as someone follows their heart they can’t go wrong, but I’m also aware of the fine line between love and hate. My specialty is listening and my advice will be from the heart.

Besides being the managing editor of The Lesbian Lifestyle you can visit Kelly’s personal blog Brainclouds or her GLBT her merchandise shop SLINC.

Tina-cious

TLL Author Name: Tina-cious
Personal blog: Tina-cious.com
Age: 37
Came out at age: 19

Bio: I’m living under the “queer” umbrella these days — mostly because I don’t think it’s right to identify as lesbian with a transman husband… so queer works for me!    I have two children one is a college graduate!!  The other is finishing his last year of high school.  My specialty?  Lesbian parenthood/step-parenthood, lesbian bed death – I was with my ex for 12 years – and the art of seduction/playing hard to get (psh, why not!?) and being a trans*wife (I totally coined that term!)…

Dharma Kelleher

TLL Author Name: Dharma Kelleher
Personal Blog: Dharmashanti
Age: 41
Came out at age: 26

Bio: Dharma Kelleher is the author of several articles on relationships, addiction and the dynamics of happiness. Her first book Fight the Misery Conspiracy: Reclaiming Your Right to be Happy is an entertaining and informative look at the ways we block our experience of joy and inner peace.

Currently, Dharma is working on A Sense of Community, a novel about a young lesbian in recovery from alcoholism, struggling against prejudice and her own personal demons. She lives in Phoenix, AZ with her partner of ten years.

Shanna Katz

Personal Blog: ShannaKatz.com
Age: 20s
Came Out: As bisexual; 17, as queer: 21, as a Femme: 22

Bio: Shanna is a sex-positive, feminist, Jew-nostic, disabled fierce queer Femme dyke (say that three times fast), and is especially interested in comprehensive sexuality education, “alternative” sexuality, working with sexuality and disability, creating sex worker rights, expanding the scope and gaze of the sex industry, queer/feminist/trans rights and combating fatphobia.

Living in Phoenix with her partner, and their three cats Kinsey, Kali and Jasper, she spends much her time contemplating deep thoughts while enjoying good food and better company, curling up under the covers with a good book and cuppa tea, enacting social justice, and changing people’s views of the gender binary and other confining social constructions. She also has a Master’s in Human Sexuality Education, and has written a sex-positive advice columns for HotMoviesForHer, GoodVibes Magazine and Out Front Colorado, in addition to doing workshops and presentations for a variety of colleges, universities, dunegons, conferences, sexuality shops and more. Her hair changes color with her mood, and she’s allergic to anything that is pink. As someone that has gone through an ever developing identity within the queer community, and as someone working in the field of sexuality, she hopes to give advice from both a personal and professional perspective, and hopefully encourage all of you to think twice or more…about everything!

For more information, please visit www.ShannaKatz.com, or read her blog at www.Essin-Em.com. To participate in her Sexually Able study for people with disabilities and their partners, please visit http://sexuallyable.wordpress.com.

Lori Hahn

TLL Author Name: lorihahn
Age: 49
Personal Blog: Hahn at Home
Came Out: In and Out since 1961

Bio: I’ve tried both sides of the fence. Not out of desire, mind you, but out of a sense of not understanding there were other choices. Where I was from, there weren’t. Once I leaped out, I’ve been happily dancing the big lesbian cha-cha ever since.

With one launched and two not far behind, I’m the proud single parent of three beautiful adopted children who test both my patience and my ability to keep them in groceries and text message plans on a daily basis.

I self-label as a more-often-than-not male-identified butch lite lesbian woman.  Figure that one out.  I’ve morphed from a notorious dating roue to a mild-mannered serial monogamist.  Right now, I’m dating someone special.  I identify best with the words of Erica Jong, who said:  We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Lori is co-editor with partner in online crime Margo Moon of the online LGBTQIA magazine, Our Big Gayborhood…where the queers write.

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We will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible. We will send an email to the address you provide in the contact form when your question goes live on TLL.  You will receive advice from all five TLL advice columnists as long as their schedule permits. However, if one of the columnists feels she does not have the background or experience to answer your question she may opt out.

* Please note that this advice should by no means be used as an actual diagnosis or therapy session. All of the panelists will be giving you their views from their own life experiences. If you have any further inquires please send them here.