Oh yes. This. (Content Warning – Frank discussion of problems with my parents, mention of mental health problems) The thing is I’m 41 and I still find people with entirely open and honest relationships with their parents to be something of an oddity. If there is one thing that growing up in the eighties and … Read More
Gods I don’t even know who counts anymore. I guess the first girl I kissed, the girl on holiday because to be honest until I actually kissed her I’m not sure I was really out to myself, it was all just very theoretical at that point. When I told my best friend at the time … Read More
I’ve written before about how coming out is never one moment, it’s a continual process in a world where straight is still the default. (A slight aside here, today I accompanied a client to the doctor’s and was asked if I was a friend or partner in a situation that would not have been read … Read More
Oh wow. And is this prompt telling, ‘Post A Coming Out Story’, not ‘Your Coming Out Story’… because if you’re Queer you are always coming out. Again and again and again. Or, well, maybe it’s just me. I’m a femme, straight passing cis-woman. I remember paddling in a canoe through Louisianna swamp in 2002 and … Read More
