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As LGBT individuals we already experiencing the shame and guilt of abuse but we may feel also now the pressure to hid our true identity so that we can use services such as shelter, support groups or crisis lines.
We would like to think we are stronger than we are and more emotionally stable then the next person, however that would be hard to prove. Even more so it would be difficult to believe.
Walking down the hallway back to the Vice Principal's office, again, for another detention I wonder will life ever be any different.
Everyday I get an email from a reader struggling with coming out or even questioning their sexuality. Confused and lost searching for answers. It upsets me to know how many of us feel alone and with more barriers and walls in front of us in discovering who we are then is needed.
When I first began my career, it was working in a South African Orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS, ten years later after a career in the field of addiction, I find myself working with kids again. The deal with working with kids in a therapeutic setting is that caregivers and parents are included in the package.
A few months ago I received an email from a woman who was upset, over a conversation that happened with a few of her friends. One of her acquaintance's thought that a woman could not call herself a lesbian if she had not being sexually active with another woman.
A troubling situation that should not be judged too harshly, we are all capable of falling in holes with little room to escape. I will try to be gentle and look at all sides when exploring this subject, and also remembers that it is very different to affairs in heterosexual couples.
When I was growing up my mother always told me, "Do not be jealous of others. Do not wish for what others have. Do not fight to possess and control someone, because in the end you will be alone as nothing belongings to us but is merely an experience." She was a wise Buddhist that attempted to sooth a young adolescents' tantrums of wants that weren't fulfilled.
Therapist: "What brings you in today?"
I can feel the warm breath of my five-year-old daughter against my neck, sleeping soundly in my arms. It's been a rough day and she has been sick.
On May 13th 2010, when I woke up that morning no one could have convinced me of where I would be almost a year later. I woke up distresses, anxious, and at an utter loss.
Everyday I practice kindness, meditation and prayer. I am not particularly religious or empathetic like some nun but I find my serenity and peace in those three actions. It is in those moments I often find my answers to life and its importance.
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."Kahlil Gibran
Friends, Supporters & Fans. I am very happy to finally make this announcement and share with you some news, as many of you have noticed our presence online and our other various media editions have been absent. Let me explain what has been happening behind the scenes.
Lesbians, like everyone else, would like to find the perfect match. Why does this often seem like mission impossible? Why is finding Ms. Perfect such a difficult ordeal? And, why do many lesbians repeatedly attract the "wrong" people into their lives?
BOSTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine is urging Massachusetts voters to support fellow Republican Sen. Scott Brown, saying he's one of a dwindling number of lawmakers willing to work across party lines.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Founded to teach about human rights and the fight for equality during the days of racial segregation, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is introducing a new topic: Lesbian awareness in the South.
For many gays and lesbians, being scared and anxious are familiar emotions. Because they worry and fret, they try to control everything and everybody around them. It is absolutely an exhausting way to live.
As I prepare for a college class presentation on the biological effects of psychoactive drugs, my girlfriend sneaks behind me and asks "what happens when you love someone struggling with this disease?"
Sitting on the edge of the bed, listening, to words without sound that only provoke horrific images that you never wanted to wonder, in your mind your trapped.
I have been sick since Thanksgiving, and it's bad enough when you're sick, but feeling like crap and coughing for almost a month will make anyone crazy. Run down, depressed and sad due to current life choices, which is how I always get when I'm feeling down, well I found myself saying a lot "It's not fair!"
One of the most difficult challenges, particularly in a same-sex relationship, is establishing boundaries with friends and blending with each others' friends. Plus, doing this while remaining secure and making each other feel like she is the most important person in the world!
There are a few things I fight about with my partner; in fact we are so alike that on the rare occasions we do fight it's exhausting and confusing. The most popular topic of debate is our parenting differences.
Nothing causes me more anguish and terror then having the lesbian ex-girlfriend discussion. It would be wonderful if we could just enter relationships where there is no past, like some sci-fi movie where your memory is erased and there is no baggage that is brought forward.
Some days I just want to give up. I don't want to have to try so hard anymore or wonder if it will ever happen for me, finding that someone that completes me that makes things right and that won't leave.
Recently I was enjoying a summer afternoon alone, happy in my solitude reading a book "Sexual Intimacy for Women: A Guide for Same-Sex Couples." It was in my happiness that I learned that lesbians are far more likely than any gay or heterosexual relationship to go for years without sex.
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