My partner sits on the table in our gynecologist’s office undressed for her annual exam. The hospital gown is flapping open around her back when our gynecologist says that given my partner’s age, health history, and low risk factors, she can skip the pap smear…
I didn’t want my work week to go like this, but by Monday afternoon it was clear that much of it would be spent talking about Charlie Sheen’s disclosure that he is HIV positive.
The two women who came to Queer Nation in the early 1990s, like me, were young queers. Unlike me, their families had sent them to therapists who believed they could cure these women of their queerness.
