Megan and Emma.
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The values taught by the mass media encourage the worst in human beings. If people are objects, neither intimacy nor community are possible. If image is all we are, we will always need to be on display. Social invisibility is a kind of death to social creatures.
Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance (via california-aries)
Sometimes a marriage was nothing more than a front to permit a woman to function as a lesbian and not be persecuted. M.K., who was an untenured professor at Mills College during the 1930s, tells of having contacted a distant cousin, a gay man, who lived in Washington and implored him to come to California so that she could present him as her fiance before her tenure review came up. She even permitted colleagues to throw a wedding shower for her (although she never went through with the marriage, since she learned that the administration’s suspicion of her homosexuality was irrevocable and she would not be given tenure). There are no statistics that reveal the incidence of front marriages between lesbians and gay men, but it is plausible to believe they were not uncommon when homosexual life as as stigmatized and difficult as it was in the 1930s.
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Lillian Faderman
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Once upon a time, I assumed I was straight – but as a journalism student working at my college newspaper, I met and subsequently fell for my first girlfriend. Coming out in my early twenties was almost a surprise to me – I’d always assumed I was heterosexual.
Trish Bendix
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