Events of the Day

[geminigirl]

Q(uotes)OTD: "No Gabe, I'd be jealous if you had orgasmic chemistry...not organic."

"Oh, just say something lesbian already"

"Save me from the straight guys. They're talking about penises again."


Thought for the day (so far): considering how much time I spend talking to the groups I work with about how you can't tell by looking if someone is HIV+, it's amazing how much I end up playing "Is he or isn't he?" whe I'm out with certain people.

Comments

[lcohen]

i just wanted to mention that i have used and heard "playing the/a game" with a definite negative connotation, rather than one of amusement. other than that, i totally understand your grief and frustration. *hug* if you'd like one.

i also must confess to often trying to "spot the dyke" as i wander around town. actually, i'm more likely to try to "spot the dyke couple"...those two women grocery shopping together: friends, mother/daughter, or lovers?--that sort of thing. but the best story i have from that exercise involves my trip home to chicago from san francisco in january, 1999, right after there had been a huge blizzard. i had been unable to leave sf (poor me!) because no planes were flying into chicago, but i finally made it onto one that was heading for chicago, via boston. when we got into boston, there was a long stopover while they were determining whether we actually would be able to fly into chicago, and i got to talking to a woman sitting near me. and i kind of *knew* the way that you do sometimes know, and so i put my hair back from my face with the hand that had the ring i used to wear back then--the one with the triangle on it--just so that she would know--and we kept talking but didn't say anything but i was sure that she'd got it. a month later, i was at a fundraiser for a glbt organization and there she was and we both started laughing and moved our groups towards each other--and agreed that we'd known (she said that spotting the ring had made her sure), and were so not surprised to see the other one there. we still run into each other at events.