No Straights Allowed

[Butterfly]

No Straights Allowed
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Guest Blogger
September 28, 2010 8:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/no_straights_allowed.php


I used to get pissed off seeing heteros while enjoying a night out at one of my friendly neighborhood gay bars. Nowadays, I'm torn between myriad feelings on their presence.

My personal history largely colors these thoughts. Allow me to explain: I am a trans woman now, but I wasn't always. I grew up a boy repressing all desire I had to be a girl (quite successfully, as I was very masculine), but by the time puberty hit, I couldn't ignore my attraction to men. I believed/convinced myself I was a gay man from about age 12 to 22.