lesbian

Although Lauv may have been headlining The Greek Theatre on Sept. 15, Hayley Kiyoko’s day ones lined the barricade.

Still, despite these positive aspects of labels, they can lead to limitations, enforce stereotypes and create difficulties when coming out to loved ones. 

Over time, by choosing to love myself, I have come to see that I’m not responsible for the way that people perceive me.

I was an only child with lesbian parents; my genetic father was somewhere out there. I’d reached a clear understanding, and shame subsided for acceptance.

It took me 22 years to embrace my actual identity and understand that what I thought was an attraction to men was actually an outright addiction to the male gaze.

There is nothing inherently natural or normal about heterosexuality; it has simply been institutionalized as the acceptable and legal sexuality.

Comphet wasn’t just a naturally occurring system in my lesbian brain. It was instilled in me, beginning at a very young age.

I couldn’t be a lesbian. Not because I was certain I liked men as well as girls, but because I didn’t want to be treated as less than human.

What kinds of desire have I ignored toward the goal of rendering myself simple enough to be legible to my family?

Through the characters of Shorty, Griff and Jefferson, the play also zeros in on the exclusionary transphobia that persists in some areas of the lesbian movement.