When I was 11 I began getting a lot of attention from a boy in my class, he was quite an early bloomer and liked to talk to me about sex. I didn’t have much of a grasp about what was wrong with the situation, talking about sex was forbidden but intriguing so I chalked my discomfort up to the excitement I was supposed to feel when breaking the rules. (...)
When I was a child I had one friend, a boy. I know now that we were both autistic. At the time none of us was diagnosed yet, but we already knew that we were both awkward and nerdy (...)
I have a few MeToo stories. Some of them happened in college, when I was pretending to be straight, so they don't have anything to do with my homosexuality. Man #1 held me down on a bed and pretended he was going to rape me, then laughed it off (...)
I was 12 when I realized that I had feelings for a peer. We went everywhere together at my family’s campground and people knew we were a bit of a pair. Flash forward almost two years, I was at a little gathering and went to a trailer on the property of the gathering to grab some snacks and drinks to bring back to the party (...)
The first time I was sexually assaulted, I was 14. I didn't know I was a lesbian yet and my friend "set me up" with a boy in our class. We had the same period for Geography and our teacher was notoriously lax about supervision. During the class, the boy came to stand behind me at my desk, and began running his hands over (...)
Night of my Black Belt Test: This was in the early 1980s and had a profound effect on me.
We had tested for our ranks that day, so that evening we had a party in a fairly liberal town (...)
This happened decades ago in Paris - I was looking for a lesbian club and found a male gay club - the bouncer gave me directions to the female one.
I couldn't find it and returned back to the male gay club (...)
