Identity
Everything makes sense
For most of my life, I've never given relationships a lot of thought. I never knew why, just that it's never been a big priority in my life. Even when I thought of getting a boyfriend, the idea was always better. I never understood my friends when they talked about their crushes or boyfriends. Whenever I saw the people they found attractive, I could never see it. Then there's the obvious stuff on television and never understood why somebody would fall in love or pursue a person after only laying eyes on them. Or on reality TV when two people would hook up after knowing each other for only a few days.
By Michael Guay4 years ago in Pride
Two mothers = a father?
Nothing better illustrates the persistence of the dissymmetry of the sexes than the confrontation of each with the question of procreation. Like everyone else, homosexuals answer this question and, until now, they had no choice but to turn to someone of the other sex.
By Nigredo Mein4 years ago in Pride
WHY WE WALK
SHE PLEDGED ALONG WITH HER SISTERS DECADES AGO and now asks me "Why do we walk?" Of course I would need to look at her with some level of serious curiosity. She pledged, I didn't. She would need to know her own secrets. Here I sit as in days of old, looking to help my aunt through her complexities of life. Short of researching the world spilled to me, I couldn't know. Several inquiries and offers to pledge to a unit in and of myself, brought no consistent resolve other than that I should need to be a man... so I approached a "brother" and "B"d him. I be'd a man. DONE. That was in response to the high ranking message brought out by that brother from his "master?" in answer to my joining the A.N.S.A.R. SHRINE and my grandfather... a free mason, was long gone. He didn't take me to the Masons.. he took me to the Elks Lodge and then to the library. The next assembly time, he went to the ELKS and dropped me off at the library. I was 8 or 9 years of age. I couldn't join either organization and said I was on hold and unless I was a son or grandson, I could not join his organization. There are women's fraternal organizations that work toward the same or similar goals.
By CarmenJimersonCross4 years ago in Pride
A Brief Conversation on My Aromanticism
About four years ago I came to the realization that I was aromantic. It took me a while because, well, it's not a largely well known romantic orientation. The fact that there can even be orientations for romance related things is hardly well known!
By Delise Fantome4 years ago in Pride
I Want To Be Obviously Queer
When I first came out, I wanted to hide. I had a partner and that was great, but I wanted that to be where my queerness stopped. I just wanted to blend in with the crowd. I disapproved of Pride parades, I was confused by queer fashion, and I generally wanted to keep the whole thing as quiet and unintrusive as possible.
By Sean Bennett4 years ago in Pride
Dyking Out: Reclamation of LGBTQ Slang
I have had the word dyke hurled at me for as long as I have been out of the closet. As a masculine-presenting lesbian woman, I hold a certain disdain for the usage of the word dyke in any context. When you have a word constantly used to degrade and harass you it is hard to see it in any other context. I am not even a fan when this term is used amongst other queer women in the community.
By Meagon Nolasco4 years ago in Pride
Gender is Cumbersome, But it Keeps me Safe . Top Story - February 2022.
Hey, my name is Danny. I'm 27 years old and non-binary: not a man nor a woman. Just a person, or an alien attempting to fit in with the rest of the persons. Honestly, that's what it feels like most days. The problem with society is that everything needs to be labeled, and everything that isn't labeled is considered strange and confusing. I never understood this compulsive need of society to put expectations on things. We label clothing, people, media, objects. When I grew up and became more acquainted with life, I realized this need for labels stemmed from the need for control. As a species, we're often scared of things we don't understand. We feel threatened by them, and hesitant to have an opinion. But instead of trying to learn, we stick to what we know, and blame everything else for causing us confusion.
By choreomanias4 years ago in Pride
