This is The Thing

On the Coming Out theme, I thought I’d share something that brought me to laughter. Be warned, it may be NSFW (Not Safe for Work), depending on where you work (if you work at the National Center for Gay Rights, though, it might be just the thing). Also, it may offend you, but that’s really [...]

OK — This is were the whole coming out series starts to get incredibly interesting. Really. (I’ve started flagging the coming out stories under the category “Coming Out Series” — see right sidebar — if you haven’t been keeping up, you can read the whole thing by clicking that category, and reading from the bottom [...]

Although I was occasionally aware of my scarlet H through my early adolescence, for the most part, I didn’t think about it much after the initial 90 days of abject terror. I wasn’t particularly interested in boys, but I danced with them, and even kissed one. There were lots of girls who didn’t seem that [...]

I grew up in small-town Kansas. From First Grade through my freshman year in High School, I lived in a town of about 2000 people which was named after Civil War hero Francis Marion (aka “The Swamp Fox”). Marion was (and, I think, still is), almost a caricature of idyllic small-town life in the Heartland. [...]

I am a lesbian, as I’ve said so many times before on this blog. I’ve known I was a lesbian since I was 12 years old. For some people, I’m the only lesbian they think they’ve ever known (although they’re probably dead wrong about that). I’ve decided that I’m going to do a series here [...]