Personal Narrative: The First Time I Heard The Word Lesbian

Coming out. For the most part when people think coming out, they think of an all at once announcement telling the whole world that you're gay, then, having a lot of long emotional talks with your family. They think of it as everything changing. For the most part, that's from the

The first word that comes to my mind that is used differently with my friends than it was used by my parents is the word gay. In this day and time, the word gay is used to describe a person who is interested in the same gender. When my parents were growing up, being gay meant that someone was happy. The second word that comes to my mind that is used differently with my friends than it was used by my parents

She was in the fifth grade at the time. Krug formally came out a year later, as she started Ritenour Middle School. She casually mentioned it to a classmate on a Sunday. By Monday, students were shouting “Christina’s a lesbian,” down the hallways at

Gays in the Media - Will and Grace is Only the First Step Bisexual. Gay. Lesbian. These are all words that in today’s society are becoming more and more common to hear. Although just a few years ago hearing these words might have shocked some and angered many, they are becoming a part of today’s norm. People are broadening their views on sexuality and the possibilities open to them. Being bisexual, gay, or lesbian is slowly becoming accepted. On television a few years ago, a comedic sitcom Ellen attempted to make gays even more accepted by casting the main character as a gay woman. Sadly, Ellen failed because viewers weren’t ready for gays to be seen in a comfortable TV setting. The idea was too new and the show was before

Many people have heard of the acronym LGBTQ but do not necessarily understand what it stands for. The acronym LGBTQ represents the community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning or queer. The group highly unrecognized in the LGBTQ community is “questioning” or “queer”. This group of people are still

I have always been Bi sexual, I did have a couple of girl friends in my past. I knew I liked girls in 8th grade I thought it was just a phase. I never told my mother or father because they are both Christians and I grew up in a church. I kept it quiet for as long as I could! I was forced to tell my mother I was gay. It was my senior year and I was on the basketball team for the school. Mesha is another team mate on my team who I was dating and still currently dating. We never let our feelings distract the way we played in practice or on the court. We knew how my coach felt about Gay people so we kept our relationship a secret from her. One day after school in the lunch room, we were in study table doing homework before practice. Mesha came up to me and kissed me as she pulled away I could see my coach

Sexual Narratives of “Straight Women” By Nicole LaMarre: This is quite an interesting article to someone like me who considered herself to be a lesbian woman and who has had several encounters with these “straight” women. The author’s main point in this article is the vast continuum in which women’s sexuality resides, but also the ways in which these women define what classifies one someone who is homosexual. Most conformed to binary categories heterosexual-homosexual, while one refused to conform to one or the other while also being uncomfortable with the bisexual label. A majority of these women also placed an emphasis on the physical act of sex with another woman to be the definitive action that would classify them as a lesbian. Since none of them had “gone all the way,” then two of the three women stated that they considered themselves heterosexual while the one, as mentioned above, refused to conform to a label.

Coming out of "My Heterophobia" Closet Growing up in a heterosexual world as a Lesbian who remained in many closets, has shape my identity and the way I will transact with people for the rest of my life. Upon coming out of closet, or being pushed out (by suspension from parents and friends) at the age of eighteen or nineteen I quickly assumed the bi-sexual title because it meant at least there was hope for me in the future. This proved to be worse for my self-esteem, and may have caused the most damage because even though I was free to come out, I was still afraid (somewhat) of taking the big leap and being totally ostracized by my friends and people I know. So I felt one million times worst trying to be bi-sexual than I ever did

My coming out went really smoothly. My grandma is totally chill with it. I first told her in 3rd grade when I liked Kennedy. I honestly can not remember a thing about it, but I do know now that I talk to her about it quite often, and she does not care. She supports me.

A famous actor once stated “But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.” However, I did not quite agree with the man when I was

This is for all of my homegirls that have decided to explore outside of what they’re accustomed to. The girls that, despite understanding the fluidity of sexuality, are still freaked out by how this one guy seems to have caught your attention beyond a “friend” level. He smells different from what

I didn’t know what the word “gay” meant until late in my eighth grade school year. I simply had never heard the word before then. However, after being exposed in a basic way to the concept of queerness, my friend group and I started going to our school’s GSA. The GSA then stood for Gay-Straight Alliance but later we changed it to stand for Gender and Sexuality Alliance in an effort to be more inclusive. Back then, many of my friends didn’t actually identify as queer or part of the LGBT community, but that would change in the next few years. I also experienced that change, as it was that year that I discovered that I am pansexual, and then the next year that I discovered that I am agender. I was lucky enough to end up having a group of friends

Since my early teenage years I have been told that the way I think and reacted to things was like a man; so for the one day I had to live the gender experience of a man, I decided to take the role as far as I can. I did

A few generations ago, homosexuality was heard of although it was rarely openly accepted and absurd in normal society. Longer than just a few generations ago, this idea was completely forbidden or entirely unspoken of. Today’s generations, especially in the more younger ages, it is highly common to discover any person a part of the gay and lesbian community. Not only is

Before sixth grade, I wasn't even aware the word ‘queer' was in the modern vernacular- as far as I was concerned, the term fell out of fashion after the 1800s, when it still meant ‘strange' or ‘peculiar.' Hearing the class bully invoke the term confused me- why did this kid