I’m a student teacher at a high school in a relatively liberal Midwestern town. We had a substitute teacher for a few days in a row and as she was leaving, asked me if I had a “special someone” in my life. I replied that I was engaged and she asked about my fiance: “What does HE do?” I am a lesbian, engaged to my partner. Cornered, forced to come out to a stranger, like I needed to provide an explanation as to HOW I could possibly be engaged to a woman, annoyed at the assumption that I’m straight
January 1st, 2013 | Comments (0)
