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]]> http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/07/12/lesbian-families-as-role-models-guest-post/comment-page-1/#comment-21631 Shereen Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:39:46 +0000 http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/07/12/lesbian-families-as-role-models-guest-post/#comment-21631 When my wife was first coming out to herself, one of her first thoughts was that she couldn't possibly be a lesbian, because she liked country music. (A few years amongst our koboi-boot-wearing-and-two-stepping lesbo sisters have certainly cleared up that particular misconception.) It's hard to become your truest self when who dream you are doesn't seem to exist anywhere you look - and that's true both of lesbians and women in general. We've talked many times about the luck we have to be living when and where we are, and the amazing bravery and vision of those of us in times, cultures and places here and elsewhere, who found a way, in the face of all that invisibility and persecution, to stand up and be seen. I'm not sure if my wife and I would have found each other if it weren't for all of our revered elders and ancestors who started drawing the outlines and shading in the shapes of what it could look like to be a dyke. We honour them every day, and the message gets passed on when my wife's mother, who called me Liz's 'friend' for the first 3 years, danced at our wedding, and told me that we were going to make wonderful parents. We know people whose opinion on equal marriage has turned 180 degrees after getting to know us. 'Role model' sounds wiser and surer than I feel on a day-to-day basis, but certainly we are leading the way to a new reality and deeper understanding for a whole variety of the folks we know and meet. Given what others have gone through, it's truly the least we can do. When my wife was first coming out to herself, one of her first thoughts was that she couldn’t possibly be a lesbian, because she liked country music. (A few years amongst our koboi-boot-wearing-and-two-stepping lesbo sisters have certainly cleared up that particular misconception.) It’s hard to become your truest self when who dream you are doesn’t seem to exist anywhere you look – and that’s true both of lesbians and women in general. We’ve talked many times about the luck we have to be living when and where we are, and the amazing bravery and vision of those of us in times, cultures and places here and elsewhere, who found a way, in the face of all that invisibility and persecution, to stand up and be seen. I’m not sure if my wife and I would have found each other if it weren’t for all of our revered elders and ancestors who started drawing the outlines and shading in the shapes of what it could look like to be a dyke. We honour them every day, and the message gets passed on when my wife’s mother, who called me Liz’s ‘friend’ for the first 3 years, danced at our wedding, and told me that we were going to make wonderful parents. We know people whose opinion on equal marriage has turned 180 degrees after getting to know us. ‘Role model’ sounds wiser and surer than I feel on a day-to-day basis, but certainly we are leading the way to a new reality and deeper understanding for a whole variety of the folks we know and meet. Given what others have gone through, it’s truly the least we can do.

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