— Jessie, 42“I had come out as bi about a year before but still hadn’t kissed a girl. I got cast in a play where I’d have to kiss a girl onstage, and I was unhappy with the thought that this would be my first kiss with a girl, so a friend of mine offered to kiss me first.
It was just a quick smooch in a hallway of a dorm building, but it felt like some kind of right of passage as a queer woman.
The first time I really hooked up with a girl I was hooking up with a trans woman that I had hooked up with before she came out.
It was sort of like I was actively reframing things through a queer lens while we were hooking up. It wound up going pretty well because we’re together now.
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