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Coming Home and Coming Out in Chile

By Lisa on May 17, 2012 . 0 comments

"A desert wasteland next to the beach." That is how my guidebook described Arica, a small city in the middle of nowhere Chile. It was 2001, and I was looking up the place where I would spend the next two and a half years with the Jesuit Volunteers Corps (JVC). Fresh out of college, I agreed to live anywhere in the world. They sent me to Arica, Chile. While JVC and everyone at home knew I was gay, I could tell right away that I would not be able to come out to my Chilean colleagues. At the time in 2001, divorce was not even legal in Chile due to the overwhelming influence of the Catholic c
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My Tiger Wife

By Lisa on June 27, 2011 · 0 comments

In an effort to understand my Chinese-American girlfriend, I recently read Amy Chua’s “Hymns of a Tiger Mother.” In her book, Chua promotes the virtues of hard work and discipline that make children raised by Chinese parents successful. While reading, I imagined what growing up was like in Jenni’s home. Because Jenni’s parents do not [...]

Guest bloggers in Croatia’s first Gay Pride

By Guest on June 22, 2011 · 0 comments

Happy Pride! Thanks to the internet, we’ve recently befriended another traveling lesbian couple, Leanne and Leah of Our Travel Experiment. On the road since January, these ladies have been giving us great advice as we prepare for our trip. Their experience of Croatia’s first Pride reminds us of the struggle for gay rights outside of [...]

Is this really my life?

By Jenni on June 20, 2011 · 5 comments

I came home last night to find Lisa in a frenzied state. “We have one business day left to take care of everything before we leave the country!,” she said in a panicked voice. My sweetheart whipped out a piece of paper on which she had written out a detailed hourly schedule for our last [...]

Supergay: SF Mayoral Candidate Bevan Dufty

By Lisa on June 16, 2011 · 0 comments

“Nah, ask me anything. I’m really open about my life and views,” replies San Francisco mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty when I ask him if he wants to review my questions before going on camera. I can only imagine how tremendous the pressure of running for mayor must weigh on him, and yet he remains relaxed [...]

Cheryl Dumesnil, “Old (Sort of, Kind of, Almost Gay) Navy”

By Guest on June 14, 2011 · 2 comments

Happy Pride Month! One of our very own Supergays, writer and poet Cheryl Dumesnil contributed this article to Out & Around. Cheryl’s also shared with us The C Word and “I’ve Been Married Three Times.” We love her writing about the crossroads of parenthood, lesbians and suburbia. In civil rights movements, change happens slowly. Sometimes [...]

Supergay: NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell

By Jenni on June 7, 2011 · 4 comments

“The case that really made me say, ‘I’m not stopping until I can see the end in sight’ happened early in my career when I was still the legal director,” says Kate Kendell about her work with the National Center of Lesbian Rights (NCLR). On a late evening at the office, Kate received a call [...]

On passion, losing sleep, and our latest dreams for Out and Around

By Lisa on June 7, 2011 · 0 comments

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. – Arthur Buddhold Jenni and I have been amazed at how much this project has taken off in the past few months. We have several hundred subscribers to our website, 14 Supergay interviews completed, an upcoming launch party with three amazing performers and politician Bevan Dufty as [...]

Super”trans”: Musician StormMiguel Florez

By Jenni on June 3, 2011 · 1 comment

“There are plenty of male folk-twang American singer songwriters. But not many of them can say they learned to write songs at Girl Scout camp.” In his music bio, StormMiguel Florez talks about being born and raised as a girl in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and later making the decision to live his life as the [...]

Guest Writer: Cheryl Dumesnil. “I’ve Been Married Three Times”

By Guest on May 29, 2011 · 5 comments

One of our very own Supergays, writer and poet Cheryl Dumesnil contributed this article to Out & Around. Cheryl’s also shared with us The C Word. We look forward to more of her writing exploring the crossroads of parenthood, lesbians and suburbia. I am not the best storyteller. So I’m not sure why, when the [...]

Finding joy outside of being productive

By Jenni on May 26, 2011 · 7 comments

When Lisa and I left our jobs, we imagined that we would spend the next month sleeping in, going on leisurely bike rides in Marin, and reading novels in coffee shops while scoffing at all of the 9-5 workers who have to rush around all day. We were so wrong. In the few weeks since [...]