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Scars
It was November, and the crisp coastal California air started to get that chill you can only feel in your bones when winter was just around the corner. It was my boyfriend Xean’s birthday when I met Jay. My best friend Nell and I took Xean out for what ended up being a seemingly pathetic and awkward celebration dinner at one of the local café’s in Seal Beach.
By Anthony Bryan Riva4 years ago in Pride
A Woman's Journey to Self Discovery
It seems we have made it to the end of this story, but the journey is far from over, I am still discovering things about myself and that is what it is all about, learning new secrets about your personality that you didn’t know were there. I figured out a lot about myself from simply looking inside while I was writing about this journey, there were things that hadn’t thought about until I started writing about where I came from to where I am now. We talked about how I thought for a long time that I was straight only to figure out that I like both men and women only again to figure out that it was more than that and learn that I like a person’s personality more than gender or sex. I even touched on possibly being polyamorous which is having the ability to have romantic feelings for more than one person, this is something that I think about sometimes. This last part will be about where I go from here and how learning all of this has shaped me into the person that I am today; learning about myself is something I take truly do seriously.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Pride
Queering the Healing Process. Top Story - September 2021.
*This piece contains descriptions of sexual assault, and may be disturbing for some readers. Before she assaulted me, Lydia seemed like exactly the kind of person I would want to date. She was older than me, with dark eyeliner and carefully curled brown hair. She liked poetry by Emily Dickenson and hikes by the ocean. We met in the usual way: a mutual friend had ushered me casually into her dorm room before we all were set to go out to a bar for the evening.
By Katie Alafdal4 years ago in Pride
Historical Queen Female Icons - Anne Lister (1791 - 1840)
A Brief History of Anne Lister. Anne, born in 1791, was brought up in a wealthy family that managed land in Halifax, England. When her uncle died, Anne was left to manage Shibden Hall and the estate that surrounded it, leaving her as a young, unmarried female landowner. At the Age of 15, Anne started a series of diaries. Within these preserved diaries, she had recorded the majority of her life, spanning across 26 volumes, with an estimate of 7'722 pages or approximately 5 million words. These diaries allowed historians an insight into what the real Anne Lister was like.
By Gueniver Warren4 years ago in Pride
Gold, Siler, Bronze and Rainbows
With the curtain now having drawn to a close on the celebration that has been the (somewhat delayed) 2020 Olympic Games, the feats of those athletes who identify as LGBTQ are being celebrated like never before in history. There have always been gay athletes who have excelled in their chosen sports, and won Olympic medals, but for the most part it wasn't until they had finished their careers before they would show their true selves to the world.
By Mark 'Ponyboy' Peters4 years ago in Pride
They Don't Write Sonnets About Happiness (Part One)
I dreamt of you last night, and I remember gazing at your beauty. Radiant. I was in love. I am in love. You spoke softly, and you listened to me. I told you all the things I missed, all the things I love, and we sat down in an intimate, dimly lit setting. I couldn't recognize the place. I don't even know if this place exists — after all, this was a place where you spoke to me after all. With your warm inviting voice, and you looked on to me with such openness and embrace. It's a feeling I was more than blessed to enjoy in my life, and it was something that brought me the most joy I’d felt in days. To feel again in that brief moment, even if only for an instant, was both a blessing and a curse.
By Mark Santana4 years ago in Pride
Good As You On Vocal And Everywhere
I was looking through the Vocal communities and noticed the most unsubscribed one was Pride , 388 stories from 297 contributors. Now it may be a relatively new community, but if we look at others , contributors are in their thousands.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Pride
A Woman's Journey to Self Discovery
I see you made it this far, great for you, now let’s keep going on my journey of self-discovery; when we last spoke, we talked about me figuring out I was bisexual and all that entailed, and now we are going talk about me realizing that gender doesn’t do it for me. On my road to learning about my bisexuality, I also learned about pansexuality which is not being attracted to a person based on their gender but being attracted to their personality instead. Speaking honestly, when I discovered that you could be attracted to a person’s personality and not just their gender or sex I felt the same way I did when I realized that you could like both sexes. Me realizing that I was more attracted to a person’s personality was not that big of a surprise to me, I have always said that I like people who like me and whether that is a man, a woman, or someone in between, that is ok with me.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Pride
