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you give the most amazing advice. i was wondering if there was any point in your life when you were confused about your sexuality and how did you deal with it?

Umm… no I don’t believe I was ever confused about it. I knew I liked girls. I mean, I dated this guy because I thought that would be an effective way to get out-of-love with my best friend at the time.

This lasted for a month before it felt like my depression would eat me alive and so I got out and decided I would never do something again if it wasn’t in my heart.

I think I was most confused about how to get girls to make out with me. I didn’t figure this out until I was 17.

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i’m jealous of the auto team for having a community. when you started out you had no gay friends right?

No, I had/have plenty. I had them all over the place. I was lucky enough to have found a group of awesome gays (sidenote: this not a word reserved for men) when I was 18, and have had a healthy dose of gays and straights in my life ever since.

But don’t be jeal! Our Auto-community is YOURS. We are you, you are us, etc. I don’t see anyone that actually works on the website with me on a daily basis because we literally all live in different cities across America/the world, so our internet communication is what we have, just like it perhaps may be the only communication YOU have, either with us or with others just like you.

The internet is beautiful thing and we built that website so that none of us would ever feel like there wasn’t a community to turn to.

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I identify as a gay female but I have recently been hearing that I cannot do so because identifying as ‘gay’ is reserved for men. I’m confused and kind of hurt. I don’t think that first sentence even made sense.

oh for crying out fucking loud
everybody takes themselves like 500x too seriously
YOU decide who YOU are

why do we do this to each other
there are HOARDS of straight people who use really shitty archaic words CONSTANTLY to talk/write about queers and especially about transpeople
why don’t we take a time out from yelling at EACH OTHER just ‘cause it’s more convenient and yell at THEM instead.

language is fluid and evolving
i pick words like a writer, for the sentence/situation
everyone picks words how they want to

anyone who bothers to get uppity about how
YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF
needs to take a giant time out and think about world hunger

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I recently had some hot girly sex and my partner wanted to keep going but I needed to take a break. I can’t just keep going and going and going… Does this make me a bad lesbian?

nothing makes you a bad lesbian.

are you in congress, voting for DOMA and against a DADT repeal?
are you an evangelical preacher convincing your flocks to pray away the gay?
are you hosting a television program called “a shot at love with tila tequila”?
are you stuffing other lesbians into lockers?
are you campaigning against gay marriage?
are you sending your precarious and inevtiably earnest/adorable children to ex-gay camp?

no. you had some hot girly sex and got tired and needed to take a break.

i think you’re good. v.good, even

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so, my friend’s girlfriend is really super jealous and controlling; my friend is clearly upset about it. i feel like i cant be too mean or bossy, but what should i say to console her, without bitching out her gf or flat out telling them to break up?

it sounds like she likes mean and bossy
so maybe try that

jk!
if i were you
i would speak my mind openly but in a way that was not jealous or controlling, lest i lose my credibility.
don’t be petty, follow all the rules of lesbian fight club even though she’s just your friend: (http://www.autostraddle.com/lesbian-fight-club-rules-of-arguments-54557/)
come from a place of love and compassion.
you care about her, you want her to be happy.

because you know what really sucks?
when you finally get out of a shitty relationship
and find out your friends have hated your girlfriend
and thought she was terrible for you
all this time
and didn’t tell you
because if they had
you would have felt a lot better
and a lot less alone
with the insecure, trapped, depressing feelings you feel in a r'ship like that

also remember
she will break up with her when she’s ready
not when you’re ready.
don’t ever forget that.
this has nothing to do with you.
support her when the time comes
be honest
do you
etc

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