06-16-2010, 12:41 PM
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How Do You Identify?: Butch
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Originally Posted by ravfem
i'm in the south too. Many years ago, there was a group of friends (lesbians & one TG guy) who would get together every Friday night for dinner & socialization. We advertised the group in the one & only hole-in-the-wall gay store, but never got new faces. As people moved away or whatever, the group just sort of vanished. i missed it tremendously, and still long for a group of like-minded people just to hang out with and do fun things.
Besides that though, there is no r/t community here. We have a gay bar, but really...i am so over it.
Many years ago i spent several weeks in Portland, OR. i asked to go to the "gay neighborhood" every day, just so i could sit and watch and smile. It was fascinating to me....all these people walking around, holding hands & just being. i LOVED it. The same when i got the opportunity to visit SF a few years ago. i went to the Castro daily just to people watch.
i go to Atlanta Pride every year, as much to be surrounded by 'my people' as anything else.
i love the thought of retiring in an exclusively women only community.
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rav- there is a place near where I grew up in Australia, called Amazon Acres- a women’s only land where all male children once they hit the age of 12years have to leave. On the gate leading to the compound is a giant penis with an axe through it.
Now I can tell you, for a packing Butch- that can make you feel mighty uncomfortable. I always moved along extremely fast when I was getting near that gate.
Do you think it is the friendships, or the environment of seeing "your people" just being- that you are looking for?
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