This year, when I sat down and thought about what I’m really, enduringly thankful for, I noticed a pattern. On top of the more universal things – my family, my friends, and above all, my cat Cedric (name changed to protect purr-vacy) – there were some items on the list that are probably not all that common at all. It made me think of a different kind of closet, one that I’m... »
Why, hello there. I’m Belle, and I am one of the new writers for Queereka. Will should be along at some point to announce the others and introduce us, but I’m not patient enough to wait to post, the reason being this topic has been on my mind for a while now, and I feel I should share. – I’ve been open about my sexuality since high school. I grew up in a gem of a midwestern town ... »
I recently contacted an old friend from college through Facebook. We were very close during our time in school, and I wanted to come out to her in hopes that we would be able to stay in touch, however infrequently. My Alma Mater is a very conservative, Christian college, and many of the students that attend hold traditional uber-conservative views. It was my hope that even though her husband is a ... »
I saw them across the quad. Three preachers – two men and a woman – with a giant sign announcing the inevitability of eternal torture unless I immediately subscribed to their newsletter. As some of you know, I’m a finely tuned scorn-powered IRL trolling machine. It was either this or the gym. The choice was obvious. I sauntered over, momentarily oblivious to my own queerness, an... »
Yesterday was my first day of classes at my new university. I’m going back to school for a second bachelor’s degree, this time in nursing, and just started taking the pre-requisites to get into the actual nursing program. A friend of mine started on the same path at a school on the other side of the state, located in a much more conservative city than where I now live. »
I realised a couple of weeks after posting my coming out story that I’d left out a fairly crucial detail. Sadly, that’s not especially shocking for me, being someone who tends to answer “so, what have you been doing lately?” with “um… I can’t remember”. (Also, the fact it’s taken almost three months to write about it here? Pretty speedy, by my ... »
I am not out to the kid I’m helping to raise. He will be 5 this month, he’s a bit gender non-conforming himself (although not more so than many kindergarten aged kids), and he is FIRMLY in the “why?” stage of life. He has the general sense that my relationship with his father is close and he knows I’m family. I am not worried about how we will tell him about polyamory... »
In my entire family, my sister is the one person I am completely sure would be completely okay with my queerness (perhaps she would even find it awesome), and since she’s also one of my best friends, she’s the one person I really, really want to come out to. The problem is, she lives 800km (google says: about 500 miles) away. We’re incredibly close, and she has all the right ideas that would make ... »
