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An Unlikely Clash of Culture
I came to live in the US some 25 years ago, in the earnest belief that there would be no racism in my new country; I believed that this America was the greatest and most free place on earth. Clearly my impression stemmed from the context of an apartheid South Africa and an America subscribing to economic […]
Lesbian History – DYKE A Quarterly
Penny House and I had been best friends since we were four years old. It was 1975, we were in our mid-twenties, had just recently come out, and were ready to take on the world. All over the United States Lesbians were getting together to make culture – music, theater, art, film, poetry and all […]
Banding Together Against Bullies
There seems to a generational thing about how well lesbians and gay men are to get along. Certainly not as a general thing because there are exceptions of all sorts. But among people older than me there seems a strange tendency to distrust the other species. This always struck me as strange given that the […]
Coming Out – The Invisible Lesbian
It wasn’t until I told Josh, my 26 year old very fabulous gay boyfriend, about my troubles wearing nail polish that I realized just maybe the world had changed. He simply couldn’t believe it when I mentioned that a girl I had a crush on in college told me my red nails meant I wanted […]
Being “Rural Gay”
I lived the majority of my “out” life in major urban areas, from Hollywood to San Francisco, and although I was raised in a rural community in South Texas, I had misgivings about what my life as a lesbian would be in a small rural community in Mendocino County. Eight years ago, my wife and […]
My Rutgers University Legacy
Last Friday, Rutgers President Richard McCormick stated that the school had a “strong history of social activism on behalf of diversity†Epochalips received this story just a few days prior to the tragic suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi. Kim Reed was one of the first women to join the Rutgers Gay Alliance in 1979. […]
Window Shopping for Lesbians
I am a 77 year old lesbian “window-shopping†on Match.com. The big 77 scares women in the 60 – 77 age range that I am looking for. The ones in their sixties are afraid of being “over the hill”. Why is every woman, including myself, trying to find someone younger than themselves? This is so discouraging. […]
What Happened to the Women’s Movement?
Is this really what our generation had in mind when they marched in the streets, sat in doorways and rotundas, picketed and posted handbills – to have a generation of women who became politicians wanting to take away women’s rights and destroy the economic and social equalities we’ve gained over the last 40 years? I […]
Road Trippin’ With My Ex
What is it about Lesbians and their exes? I just got off the phone with my ex from 20 years ago and we were trying to figure out how to take care of her ex’s dog when her ex goes into the hospital. My ex from 22 years ago is my roommate, and we just […]
She’s my Wife and Yes We’re Really Married
An interesting thought occurred to me today.  Something that has irked me over and over again, but no light had been shed upon the reasons behind it until now. It finally all makes sense. Georgia introduced me to some old friends of her’s today as her wife. And what followed is painfully common, “Oh, you […]
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