The Reluctant Lesbian: How Far Would You Go to save Your Family?

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However, as ‘gay’ slopes towards its grave as a schoolyard insult, it’s tempting to wonder whether ‘lesbian’ might have won a similar fate, had activism not centred around the de-facto male-focused word ‘gay’.

Finally realized I had some game with women, and after seeing my very first girlfriend naked, I never understood why I dated men in the first place. She constantly fights her monstrous nature, showing how trauma can turn victims into perpetrators of further pain and hurt. Like the vampire lore of Dracula, Lucy has the power to mesmerize people and put them under her control. A young lesbian couple struggles with the possibility of one of them going to prison for murdering her own rapist.

So please remember these people, like my mother of blessed memory, who raise their offspring with quiet dignity, step tentatively and sometimes fearfully into their truth, struggle to find their strength, and teach their children love, tolerance and the power of connection. When it came my time to speak, I looked him squarely in the eye and said: "you probably don't really know any children of a gay or lesbian couple, well guess what -- you're looking at one. Throughout the story, Rochester and Dracula’s legacy in pop culture continues to keep Lucy and Bee out of their own narrative.

Whatever your reluctant about it’s okay, I know you’re scared but so are they and they need your help. Athletes, politicians and actors are all declaring who they are, and even reshaping who they'd rather be. If you don't know what I mean, you haven't experienced one of today's hottest shows and watercooler topics: Sense8 -- a Netflix original series about eight individuals from around the globe who share nothing but a psychic-emotional neural pathway connection.To people like my mom, who generally disapproved of "gratuitous sex or violence" the steaminess of Sense8 could be misinterpreted as a normalized aspect of a media agenda exploiting the age-old marketing maxim: "sex sells. The other, a mechanic, is desperate to save her family from a problem she doesn't have the tools to fix. Like many of her generation, she did what she was "supposed to" by raising her family, remaining married and quietly suffering.