Lori, we deserve all the joy we can get!!!
This week was a little crazy, but yesterday I met up with Josie, my transgender friend from the QM2 cruise. She has a fear of flying, so she is taking the QM2 back from NY to Southampton today. She wanted a NYC pizza before she left so there is a pizzeria right across the street from the Stonewall Inn. It was a perfect combination! She included another transgender woman that she was friends with here in NYC. They met playing online video games. They both are in their early thirties, so the video game meet-up makes sense.
It was great to be out as three transgender women. Despite our age differences, we had so much in common. It made me feel so at home, particularly politically. Josie has a long-term boyfriend in Sweden, and Alice is married in Brooklyn. It was nice to know that they also have joy in their lives. We intend to stay in touch...but probably not with video games, at least not with me...