I was 16, and had started to go to a local gay bar in the nearest city. The staff knew we were underage. One night, I met a 38 year old transwomen (....)
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. (...)
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 (...)
