Status Updates From Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbia...

"After a tour of duty in the Roman Catholic Church, she went to theology school in Halifax. 'I've never experienced so much sexual harassment in my life. … I thought, this can't be happening, this is the church — I really thought I was going crazy.'"

"Now and then he'll drive an hour and a half to a gay and lesbian dance in Prince George. ‘But if you don't belong to one of the cliques there, you just don't belong — at least that's my experience. Even so, I'll go again. It's about the only place where I can be myself for a while.'"

"The fact that she needed me was probably the thing that I needed most in her."

oh Denis, i would so love to meet you. wherever you are, doing whatever what.

“[S]he convinced her husband they must attend a meeting of the newborn Gay Liberation Front — in solidarity, of course. She left her husband shortly after, got involved with another man, a friend of theirs, and the first woman she slept with was his partner. This was the '70s; anything was possible.”

damn! (in kevin hart’s voice)

‘Diane moved to another town to be with her lover, "la femme de ma vie.”’

“I’d love to start up a retirement home for gays - especially for the ones who aren't in relationships. We could use something like that, don’t you think?"

the people yearn for community!!

if I had a nickel for every book i’ve read that featured sapphic nuns I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice