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This reader-submitted essay series explores love in all its guises—romantic, obsessive, familial, platonic… you name it. If you are interested in submitting a potential essay, please go here.
Before she got Alzheimer’s, she never got to know me and after all of this, she never really will
I didn’t expect to find romance in my small town
It was intense and condensed — and we fooled no one but ourselves
How meeting one of my heroes reminded me to love my feminine self
We have two queer identities, but share one sibling bond
“I think I’m trans, too,” I said. “That’s okay,” he said, “I know.”
I was a lesbian who turned straight overnight. Then my husband came out as a trans woman.
He learned that my sexuality didn’t entirely define me
‘He said he was not attracted to men — even the man who used to be his girlfriend’
‘She told me I must now embrace the man I was always supposed to be’
Acknowledging that I was bisexual was the best, most radical thing I ever did
‘I was angry at myself for being afraid when I knew full well there was no reason to be’
