I’m not embarrassed to say that this middle-aged lesbian American has a rather significant though purely platonic love-crush on Jon Birch, the mastermind, artist, and frequently heretical Brit behind ASBO Jesus.
While Jon’s archive is filled with wonderful pieces on homosexuality and being gay, this most recent one was especially moving because while reality for most [...]

Posted in Coming Out, SnapShot Reflections 4 Comments »

This personal story was submitted by Andrea and is the winning entry among the twenty submissions received in the First Annual SisterFriends Writing Contest. It’s an honor to share Andrea’s story with you along with the other stories that will be posted in the coming weeks.
In thinking about writing this story my mind has gone [...]

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If there was a pill that could make me straight
…..Straight in body
…..Straight in mind
…..Straight in heart
……….I would not take it.

If taking such a pill would restore all my lost friendships
…..And regain my parents pride
…..And give back my families respect
…..…..I would not take it.
If taking such a pill would return me to my former ministry
…..And the [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Human Sexuality, So Gay 75 Comments »

For the past several weeks we’ve developed quite a little archive on the topic of Dating and Relationships:

Dyke Dating: Reconciliation Before Relationship
Dyke Dating: Reconciliation Before Relationship – One More Thing
Dyke Dating: Coming Out Before Going In (to a relationship)
Dyke Dating: Online Courtship Caveats
Dyke Dating: God’s Girlfriend Guarantee
Lesbian Relationships: Preparing for Love
Lesbian Relationships: Postscript to Preparing [...]

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[My apologies for not having this post up yesterday as promised but it seems that Comcast went retro on us all day yesterday, taking our internet connection back to the days of 2400 baud dial-up. Gratefully all systems are "Go" this morning.]
This could be the shortest blog post I’ve ever written since the bottom line [...]

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Don’t ask me Girlfriend!
Oh, I know you wouldn’t of course, but others have. On more than a few occasions women have provided me with the detailed story of their relationship with another woman and then asked in the closing paragraph, “So what do you think about our chances? Do you think she’s the one for [...]

Posted in Relationships 17 Comments »

Tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday I’ll be blogging my two final posts in the series on Dyke Dating and Lesbian Relationships, and so my question is where do we go from here? Along with my usual meanderings I’d like to focus the blog topics on areas that are of concern or interest to you and so [...]

Posted in Blog Basics and Info 11 Comments »

Okay, now that I got that out of my system, let’s move on to the subject at hand, namely Where in the World Is My Future Wife And How In the World Do I Find Her?
Darn if I know. I’m reasonably ill-equipped to offer much advice on how to go about finding love when I [...]

Posted in Dating, Relationships 3 Comments »

The Supreme Court of California will be hearing opening arguments later today (Thursday) that both support and oppose November’s passage of Prop 8 in which 51% of California voters voted to enter the phrase “marriage is between one man and one woman” into the California Constitution.  The Court has two decisions before them. They will [...]

Posted in Marriage, News and Events 6 Comments »

Indulge me this post to back up and do some fundamental re-framing of my recent post on Lesbian Relationships: Preparing for Love where I encouraged caring for our spiritual, relational, and emotional growth; taking time to heal the broken places in our lives; deepening our self-awareness; and fully participating in life now rather than waiting [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Relationships 10 Comments »