Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest

That sin might be technically forgivable, but I knew in my depths it would be an irrevocable act, a one-way passage to another place. It was a goal so unrelentingly difficult that I spent my late teen years committing every other sin in the book rather than succumb to the one I yearned to commit. I would successfully run the gauntlet of my peer group and society. By the time adolescence brought a drastic change in attitude, I had learned unambiguously that any orientation beyond friendship with my own gender was unacceptable to my parents, peers, and to my church. From as early as age five, I had been falling in love with my female playmates except for those obligatory few tomboy years when I preferred the adventurous neighborhood boys to the uninteresting girls. My personal journey is not that much different from many of our stories. Out of this context and out of the course of my own life emerged a writer. Somehow, out of this context, we found a way to survive, to find connections, and make a life for ourselves. Forrestįor LGBT people of my mid-twentieth century generation, books depicted us with revulsion or pity films portrayed us in ludicrous, hyper-fervid fantasies of evil abnormal psychology texts grouped us among the most disturbed of deviates. The Politics of Pride: A Personal Journey Katherine V. Forrest - Lodestar Quarterly Lodestar Quarterly The Politics of Pride: A Personal Journey - Katherine V.

Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest