So, you finally met the one, you’ve played the dating game, set the sheets on fire, learned to sleep in the same bed and left your toothbrush at his house. You finally found the courage to say the L word — that’s love, not lesbian — and now you’re left with that final step. Cohabitation. […]
So here is Part 2, or the conclusion of my recent pondering on femininity versus femme-ininity. In case you missed part 1, I posted it yesterday so it should not be hard to find, but here’s the link. At the end I was explaining how I came to love the word QUEER….and why. …Merriam-Webster includes
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I’ve been pondering all things “femme” of late. As my pondering turned to writing on this topic, the post got a little lengthy so I’m splitting it into two parts. So don’t be surprised when you get to the end and…well you’ll just have to get there and you’ll see. Read on. Since bursting out
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Hello Readers! The Queer Femme in the Country is now in the BIG country…Los Angeles. The blog had to have a new name too, so redirect your favorites list to Queer Femme On The Move. Some aspect of my life is always moving and changing so it seemed like a good new direction. Spread the
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I’ve been an LGBT activist since the mid-1980s. I was an early member of the California State University, Fresno student organization known at the time as the Gay and Lesbian Student Alliance (GLSA). I’ve been in this fight for a long time. I love the energy and enthusiasm of the movement as it is today.
I am living in a state that is flirting with the idea of writing discrimination into their constitution. Knowing in the back of my mind that thirty other states have voted to discriminate against same sex couples by defining marriage between one man and one woman, it is sometimes easy to look over the historic
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“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the ’wrong kind of person’ for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their
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Among conservatives, one often hears homosexuality referred to as a choice, while most of us insist—quite vehemently sometimes—that our sexual orientation was set from the moment we were born. I believe we and conservatives are talking about two different things, each of which is interesting and important to study. Conservatives may well cede that some
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The tragedy in the story about Eric James Borges life is not how he died. It is that he died for love at the hands so called Christians with their inflated egos and mangled moral virtues. The same people who would have stoned Jesus Christ if he lived today. These same Christians are shaken to
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