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"Am I bisexual?" - A guide to dating women for the first time in adulthood
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Historically associated with gay male culture, the glory hole is a remarkably durable form of sexual expression that both straights and gays use to this day
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What, if anything, did you do for Pride Month this year?
Normally June is a time for celebration and demonstration for LGBT people in the USA (thanks for the correction, @Algernon_Asimov!), but on account of COVID and our need to protest widespread...
Normally June is a time for celebration and demonstration for LGBT people in the USA (thanks for the correction, @Algernon_Asimov!), but on account of COVID and our need to protest widespread racial injustice, this past month felt like an unusually somber and isolated Pride Month.
I'm wondering if anyone here did anything for Pride Month, whether it was a celebration, protest, reflection, creation, or something else entirely. If you didn't do anything, feel free to share why not as well. I think a lot of us are likely in similar boats.
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Parents raising ‘theybies’ say it liberates children from gender roles and gives them the freedom to choose their own label
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Asylum seekers persecuted for being LGBT+ will be given priority under groundbreaking Norwegian scheme
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Somerville, Massachusetts, recognizes polyamorous domestic partnerships
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“Coming Out” Godzilla stop-motion short
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Zillow now displays LGBT non-discrimination laws on homes
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The hidden history of Paris Is Burning
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Spencer Brown comes out as gay
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Party and protest: The radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
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Views of homosexuality around the world - The global divide persists, but a survey of thirty-four countries shows increasing acceptance in most of them over the past two decades
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Pictures from the history of LGBTQ protests
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Disclosure: A documentary on trans representation in media
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Voguing for our lives. Again
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What JK Rowling should know about a transgender woman like me: Every day in public is risky
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Thirty-one brand new LGBTQ YA books to devour this summer
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US Supreme Court grants federal job protections to gay, lesbian, transgender workers
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US supreme court rules employers cannot discriminate against LGBTQ+ workers
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I am a mother of a trans teen and here’s what you’re getting wrong about them
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LGBTQ+ rights in Poland are in danger
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New York’s Gender and Family Project advises parents how to support their children’s gender expression
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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
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Mermaids writes an open letter to JK Rowling
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JK Rowling is dangerously wrong
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Summer of Pride: A month-long LGBT game streaming charity event
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Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's latest tweets about gender identity
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Iyanna Dior, a Black trans woman, beaten by mob in Minneapolis
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Pride is more than a parade: In these pandemic times, let's remember that Pride Month is about the resilience, creativity and beauty of the LGBTQ community
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Puerto Rico approves new civil code, sparking fears over LGBT+ rights
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Alt-right homophobes are using 4chan to plan a terrifying cyber attack on the LGBT+ community during Pride month
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Larry Kramer, playwright and outspoken AIDS activist, dies at 84
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How She-Ra’s game-changing ending made cartoon history | The Big Picture
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The Queen: NYC drag pageant scene before House LaBeija
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A trans woman in France has won election to become the country's first openly transgender mayor
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Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp
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Hungary votes to end legal recognition of transgender people
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S-Town podcast producers settle lawsuit with subject’s estate: suit filed in 2018 alleged the podcast used McLemore’s identity for a commercial purpose, violating Alabama's Right of Publicity law
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Apple releases two new Pride Edition Sport Bands for Apple Watch
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Same-sex marriages can be registered in Costa Rica starting May 26 2020
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Man arrested over 1988 cold case murder of Scott Johnson in Sydney
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The LGBT stars of old Hollywood
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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Meet Syd Sanders, Maine's first transgender high school valedictorian
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Lawful Masses on BiNet USA's claims of copyright on the Bi Pride flag
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UK man who gave birth to child cannot be named as father on that child's birth certificate
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The more complicated attraction layer cake
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Polish couple hand out rainbow masks to fight country's LGBTQ-free zones
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I wrote a poem - Coming Out 2.0
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome. Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word. Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing. Coming Out 2.0 When I...
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome.
Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word.
Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing.Coming Out 2.0
When I first came out
I thought it was over.
Done.
I know myself now,
My life can finally be
worthwhile and fun.But there was always a mess I dared
not touch. Who do I like? What gaze
makes me blush? I suspected the feminine
but held out hope – only taking up one letter
made it easier to cope.And some people do change after starting
HRT, so patiently I hoped men would appeal
to me. I had some feelings before, it seemed reasonable
they would grow. But as time went on I realized I had
nothing to show. My feelings for men were entirely gone,
but still hopeful for a straight-passing future, I pressed on.I had definite feelings for women before,
But at times the attraction seemed a bit more –
Did I want to be them or did I want to be with them?
The former I assumed, as it helped to distract,
focus on my work, brush my desires under the mat.I’d think “She looks cute”, but “in that outfit”, “with that hairdo” and other qualifiers
I began to append, convincing myself what I felt was normal and, like a
Chicagoland road, no bend. When I began to notice some feelings bubbling up I said
“Female friendships are close, it’s nothing, the end.” But try as I might, they flowered
and bloomed, and soon I could not help but be all-consumed. Maybe I’m bi, I thought,
That isn’t so bad. More options for dating, how can I be mad? I told my friend my feelings, and as
expected, for me she had none. She’s still one of my best friends, so I’d neither lost nor won.I dealt with the rejection and moved on. I could still be bi, better not
jump the gun. You can’t take back coming out, you’ve got one shot – nail it
and be done. I thought everything would be the same, but the floodgates were open,
my restraints had been broken. I could finally be honest about my feelings
for women (endless, confusing and interwoven) and for men, which were at most
an appreciative token.A week after confessing to my crush, it was obvious
who won. The Sapphic feelings and desires made
their presence known, their intent to stay,
and more difficult than coming out
as trans was admitting
to being gay.15 votes