Lesbians Only What challenges do you face or have you faced as a lesbian?

Coming out was the scariest thing I've ever done, but once I got through it and it was behind me, I've never been happier! I also struggled with rejection from my mom, but things eventually smoothed over, and a year later she had her own coming out.

The only thing I have to deal with now that I've come out in 2021 is my intense fear of violence and sexual assault from an angry and resentful man who may not agree with my coming out as a lesbian.

My sister-in-law and her wife face another challenge. They are a two-mom family; each of them brought a school-age teenage girl to the marriage. When they go to parent-teacher conferences, they are sometimes shunned by other moms who happen to be straight. What a pity!

 

Yes indeed sure is!!

 

Pardon the intrusion, but this set off my alarm bells. I recommend you reexamine how much personal data you give out. (Not in this thread, specifically, but elsewhere here.)

Please look after yourself.

 

If you think this "angry and resentful man"could do you harm---arm yourself appropriately. Women are killed, assaulted every day in this country because of uptight morons.

 

Fortunately, things are a lot easier here in the UK. As you may know, our daughter is in the same situation and she has had constant support over the last decade, she now has 3 year old twins who have 2 mothers Mammy and Mommy. The biological mother is our daughters partner.
Christina (Being a police officer), has had a few problems filling in legal paperwork giving details of her wife. Marriage is completely legal in the UK, but there is no correct terminology for same sex partners.

 

If all this starts getting you down, take a break and enjoy a holiday in the UK. You can see my reply to Scratcho.

 

Ah thats beautiful....God bless them all!!!

 

Just trying to make friends, and be out at the same time, I find if I manage to make a friend who is straight, a woman, eventually they don't seem to want to be around me then, I tried around where I live and found it wasn't a good idea to tell them the truth, but they always ask if I had a boyfriend, if not was I ever married, of course to a man they are thinking, so because I prefer to be honest with someone I want to be friends with, I tell the the truth, and then well they stop wanting to me to come around then. So because of that I don't even try anymore. I live in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan, in the suburbs, which is pretty conservative, so most aren't too welcoming to anyone not straight. So it's not very fun being the only Lesbian or LGBTQ person in the whole area. I don't go to bars or clubs, which there is no gay ones in the area, there use to be a decade ago, but that closed, so nothing now. And as a 57 yr old, it's even harder to find friends, even if they aren't straight.