Pride Month! Another reason to love June.

It has been so long since we have made the time to attend Pride festivities. We used to love to attend the festivals and parades in Portland. But since we have lived near Philly, life has just been so busy that when June rolls around (my favorite month) we just have not made it to the City of Brotherly Love to enjoy the Pride season.

What is Pride all about in your community? What does Pride month mean to you? What has been your favorite part about the festivities? Mine used to be simply walking in public with my partner hand-in-hand with no one staring at us like we were some sort of societal pariah.

Years ago, before FB and G+ and other social media, in the blog world this season was also an opportunity to share one’s “coming out” story. Here’s a couple links to posts that I shared way back then. What is your coming out story? What does LGBTQ mean to you?

http://www.phillygaypride.org

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Why would a woman leave a man for a woman?

That, my friends, is the $25,000 question! Or at least a topic of increasing popularity.

There is nothing new under the sun, and some would say that same-sex pairings are as old as history itself. So, why is it that just recently Oprah is addressing the issue of “Why women are leaving men for other women”?

Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years… Certainly nothing is new about women having sex with women, but we’ve arrived at a moment in the popular culture when it all suddenly seems almost fashionable—or at least, acceptable.

Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by. Although the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of married, divorced, single, and even same-sex partners living together, it doesn’t look for the stories behind those numbers. But experts like Binnie Klein, a Connecticut-based psychotherapist and lecturer in Yale’s department of psychiatry, agree that alternative relationships are on the rise. “It’s clear that a change in sexual orientation is imaginable to more people than ever before, and there’s more opportunity—and acceptance—to cross over the line,” says Klein, noting that a half-dozen of her married female patients in the past few years have fallen in love with women. “Most are afraid that if they don’t go for it, they’ll end up with regrets.”

Over the past several decades, scientists have struggled in fits and starts to get a handle on sexual orientation. Born or bred? Can it change during one’s lifetime?…

The entire lengthy article in Oprah magazine is definitely worth reading of course. However, I have given this topic quite a bit of thought myself through the years and I can offer you gentle readers a whole truck load of reasons why a woman just might leave a man for another woman. Some are humorous, some are serious. 🙂

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