Posts Tagged ‘ Lesbian ’

Labor Day seemed the perfect time to bring you suggestions for something that requires no labor!  Reading.  Though we haven’t decided if this will be a regular feature, we bring to you today three book reviews of GLBT books.  If you find them helpful, and would like us to continue this feature, be sure...
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It’s been a wild and crazy two years. It would have been wild and crazy even without my assorted misadventures. Two years ago this month our brother was electrocuted in a workplace accident, and we didn’t know if he would live, or if the brother we’d always known and loved would ever be the same...
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Readers who grew up in pre-gay liberation times, or who come from conservative religious families, will remember the loneliness of the deep closet.  Mine, in the 1960s was no different, but was exacerbated by my living in a foreign country. In the 1960s, Europe was still a very foreign place: few people spoke English, the...
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A friend of my partner Kelly told him he was recently at a relative’s wedding reception and not in the best of moods. But his already-stretched tolerance for the festivities was strained even further when he considered that he was celebrating an institution that was denied to him, at least in our state. How...
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One of the hardest things about coming out later in life, for me, was figuring out my lesbian identity. For a while, it was enough to tell the world that I was a lesbian. It was enough for me to acknowledge that I liked, loved, wanted to be with women. But the more I...
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Author Jaye Maiman wrote seven Robin Miller mysteries for Naiad Press and then disappeared.  I felt as though I’d been abandoned by a friend as I hunted for another character as complex as Robin Miller.  I eventually discovered Kathryn V. Forrest’s Kate Delafield mysteries, but it wouldn’t keep me busy indefinitely.  I always wondered...
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I once had a boss who was younger than I who had been married longer than either of my hetero marriages would last. She described marriage as “relentlesss.” In the years since then, I have thought often of her remark. Webster’s defines relentless as “showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength...
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Recently, I was conversing with a friend who told me that her ex was moving out, but that she was going to let her keep a key, just in case. It sent me on double-Hell-flashback to a time when I gave a key out to someone I was dating, whom I figured I...
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Part of being a single lesbian in California often is experiencing the joys of having a roommate. And you rarely know what you’re going to get: “Tennifer”: During the initial interview for the roommate position she appeared within the bell curve of normal. A bit on the geek side but still sane enough...
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I suspected I was different when I first saw William Shatner shirtless in a Star Trek episode where he has to fight, gladiator-style. I was probably still in grade school. What was Gene Roddenberry thinking, subjecting prepubescent boys to such homoerotic fetish material as gladiators, military uniforms, and phallic-shaped weapons that had a “stun”...
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