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Ecstatic Gaydar: Getting Over An Ex With X

November 12, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Caitlin Bergh I’m not a drug-taking person but once upon a time, when I was very desperate and sad, I tried ecstasy. I was desperate because I had just […]

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Lesbian, Memoir, Personal, Relationships, Sex, Straights
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Round of Applause: The Theatrical Night of My First Kiss

November 7, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

By: Caitlin Bergh I’m standing in a long line that winds around the outside of a huge ballroom in New York City wearing a bright yellow prom dress. I’m waiting for my […]

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Femme, Lesbian, Memoir, Personal, Romance, Women, Youths
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Is There a Point to Cheating?: Being Sex Positive and Against Infidelity

October 12, 2012by inourwordsblog 9 Comments

by: Bobby Crowley So, I was thinking about the word “slut” this week. I was thinking about the word “slut” and it sparked some mental churning. I began to think […]

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Body Positivity, Lesbian, LGBT, Queers, Women
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Amber, Part 2: Everything Is Pointless

September 18, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Caitlin Bergh  Christmas is a blur. Everything is pointless without her. I daydream about her. I night-dream about her. I barely talk to my family. They can’t understand what […]

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Lesbian, LGBT, Life, Personal, Women
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Amber: Part 1

September 17, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Caitlin Bergh Amber. She was the first person I was in love with who loved me back. She had brown hair that just barely grazed her shoulders; it was […]

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Lesbian, LGBT, Life, Memoir, Personal, Women
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Gay Shoes, White Zinfandel: A First Outing

September 5, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

By: Caitlin Bergh I’m nervous. Everything about my outfit feels wrong. This is my first time going to a gay bar, and I made the horrific discovery ten minutes ago […]

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College, Coming Out, Editorial, Lady Business, Lesbian, Personal
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Where Does Identity Policing Come From?

August 31, 2012by inourwordsblog 3 Comments

by: Butch Wonders I bet we’ve all experienced at least one of the following: (1) Being told we don’t “belong” to a group we think we belong to. (2) Having […]

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Activism, Advice, Awareness, Butch, Equality, Gay, Gender, Genderqueer, Lesbian, LGBT, Queers, Society, Straights
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Coconut Love: Tales of a Closeted Virgin

August 31, 2012by inourwordsblog 3 Comments

by: Caitlin Bergh When I was a sophomore in college, I was sitting in my room doing homework one afternoon when I overheard some friends in the hallway talking about […]

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College, Dating, Humor/Satire, Lesbian, LGBT, Memoir, Personal, Romance, Sex, Women
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Gendercide Disguised As Fetal Healthcare

August 30, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Cassandra Warren  I recently read a short article summarizing the findings from a paper in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Forum for Ethical and Legal Debate, which […]

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Activism, Awareness, Butch, Equality, Gender, Health, Homophobia, Lesbian, LGBT, News, Social Justice, Women
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Get Right or Get Left: A Review of Pray the Gay Away

August 28, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Anna Cook Between the winter of 1987 and the summer of 1988, Boston-based journalist Neil Miller traveled across the United States “in search of gay America.” Though he spoke […]

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Books, Gay, Lesbian, LGBT

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