First Person

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Recent First Person posts

Lesbian Meme Culture Normalized My Abusive Relationship

Imagining a Neurodiverse Future

Six Black Trans Women on Sending Abundant, Overflowing Love to Zaya Wade

Courting Loneliness

A Rent-Stabilized Room of Her Own

Bonus Time: Living To Be Queer Elders

People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List

In Honor of Rude Women

The Lunar New Year Coming Out Letter I’ll Never Send To My Mom

Curls That Dance Under Any Light: Rediscovering My Queer Hair in India

Writer Elizabeth Wurtzel is Dead at 52: Her Life Was One Long Longing

There Are Some Ghosts I’m Still Waiting For

My Parents Made Me Gay

From Willow to Waverly: A Decade of Being Out and Me and Queer TV

Prone to Wander

Uncovering My Secret Queer Family History

Getting Stonewalled at Stone Mountain

Haunting of Hill House’s Spooky Lesbian Empath Helped Me Understand My Own Ghosts

I Went to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and All I Got was This Shirt and Self-Confidence

A God That Makes Sense to Me: On Bisexuality & Purity Culture