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 Broadening My Own Horizons
Since high school, when I "discovered" that I'm a lesbian, I've surrounded myself in "my own kind". At my high school, homophobia was nothing but a faded shadow lingering far in the background. I lived downtown in a big city and homosexuality wasn't anything new to any of the students there.
My straight friends didn't have any issue accepting my change of "heart", but it wasn't long before I was barely speaking with them, because I'd found a new set of friends. Friends with whom I could go out and try to hook up with other women but also friends who knew all the best hangouts and most entertaining gay/lesbian clubs.
By the time I finished college, I'd been in the pride parade every year, I was a part of almost every gay/lesbian/bi club that existed on my campus and I hadn't had a close straight friend since those people who had so easily accepted me in high school and I'd never really thought twice about.
I was so busy being a proud lesbian that I'd forgotten about the rest of the world. Pretty much shut them out! And when this dawned on me, I was horrified with myself. Here I was doing the exact equal opposite thing to the homophobes that I'd petitioned against!
But how does one go about trying to find a straight friend when one has surrounded oneself in an entirely homosexual community? Why the Internet of course! It took a few weeks in ranges of chat-rooms to find someone I really felt I could connect with. But it happened! My first straight woman friend since high school! And we had so much in common! I was shocked, though I shouldn't have been. She wasn't an alien after all, she was a woman, just like me!
Soon, we were meeting in person. We were becoming great friends shopping together, getting coffee, just chewing the fat. She's showed me a whole new bright and beautiful world.
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