BlackCatLady
09-06-2007, 01:50 PM
Hey everybody!
I've been reading this forum for a few weeks already. I've been linked to here through other sites and I keep coming back to this site. You seem to be a great community; I'm especially impressed at the real diversity I see here - how often have I seen "LGBT communities" that totally lacked the "BT" part - this is not the case here and it's wonderful. And seeing nice and accepting straigt people is always great. To sum up, I like it here, and I thought it would be, finally, a good idea to register.
To briefly introduce myself, I'm a 34 year-old lesbian woman, I live in Quebec City, Canada, I work for the government and I live with my wonderful and beloved partner for almost 1 year now - and hoping for many years together. She is truly my soul mate and the woman I've been waiting for for many years. I thank God that she is in my life.
My username comes from my liking for cats in general, and black cats in particular. I've always found black cats beautiful, classy and irresistible - and it shows people I'm definitely not superstitious! LOL. Seriously, I kind of relate with them, because black cats have a long reputation of being sinister and wearing bad luck, and the object of religious persecution (being "symbols of witchcraft"). Me and my partner are currently taking care of an adorable female black cat (7 years old) that we like very much; her owner is a friend of ours who have to share an appartment with a cat-allergic person. We of course intend to get our own cat someday, and if I have my word, it will of course be a black cat ;) Well, of course, this is not an unnegotiable condition - if the cat's not black but I connect with it, so be it! I'm open-minded!
So, back to more serious topic, I also like very much the spirituality going on here. I've been raised Catholic but cannot say I relate myself with this denomination right now; actually I don't relate with any official Christian denomination; but I'm definitely not an atheist. I believe in God, just not in organized religion. However, I appreciate very much what I've read here about homosexuality and the Bible. And after having read and thought about other spiritualities, I keep coming back to Jesus and his teachings. My partner is also without religious denomination, although she is very influenced by pagan/wiccan thinking. While not relating with this (while I highly respect those beliefs, and even more so because my beloved one relate to them). Our discussion about spiritual beliefs are very interesting and a great part of our relationship. I am a very spiritual person and I guess this is a good part of what makes me like your forum.
I have known I'm a lesbian for years; I became fully aware of it when I was 22, but it was present way before that. Contrary to a lot of others here, I'm not coming from a very religious background - as for many of my generation here, my parents were (and still are) very liberal. However they have shown when I was a child and a young teenager a hostile attitude towards homosexuality. I was very afraid to tell them but it went well after all, although the very first months after my coming out were not easy. For my mother I have to say she progressed a lot; for my dad I don't know because we don't talk about this kind of things. But I guess he's at least tolerant (I would need to talk more with him to know if he's really accepting); I recently introduced them to my girlfriend and it all went very well. I'm so happy about that!!
As for my own involvement here about gay rights, well I'm not a big activist although I have participated in discussions about gay marriage when it was discussed a lot, a few years ago (circa 2004), when a lot of letters were published in the newspapers. It was at times frustrating - like repeating the same things "ad nauseam" - but I'm prould I did something. There is this organization here called GRIS (it's a french acronym, the translation would be group for social integration of sexual minorities) who sends people to high schools to talk to students; I support it, even if I can't participate because it requires to have free week days (which I don't have - today is an exception); but I would if I could.
I'll end this very long introduction by saying how I admire your activism in fundamentalist territory - it's very courageous and something that ought to be done. I'll keep hanging out here and maybe participating in some discussions.
I've been reading this forum for a few weeks already. I've been linked to here through other sites and I keep coming back to this site. You seem to be a great community; I'm especially impressed at the real diversity I see here - how often have I seen "LGBT communities" that totally lacked the "BT" part - this is not the case here and it's wonderful. And seeing nice and accepting straigt people is always great. To sum up, I like it here, and I thought it would be, finally, a good idea to register.
To briefly introduce myself, I'm a 34 year-old lesbian woman, I live in Quebec City, Canada, I work for the government and I live with my wonderful and beloved partner for almost 1 year now - and hoping for many years together. She is truly my soul mate and the woman I've been waiting for for many years. I thank God that she is in my life.
My username comes from my liking for cats in general, and black cats in particular. I've always found black cats beautiful, classy and irresistible - and it shows people I'm definitely not superstitious! LOL. Seriously, I kind of relate with them, because black cats have a long reputation of being sinister and wearing bad luck, and the object of religious persecution (being "symbols of witchcraft"). Me and my partner are currently taking care of an adorable female black cat (7 years old) that we like very much; her owner is a friend of ours who have to share an appartment with a cat-allergic person. We of course intend to get our own cat someday, and if I have my word, it will of course be a black cat ;) Well, of course, this is not an unnegotiable condition - if the cat's not black but I connect with it, so be it! I'm open-minded!
So, back to more serious topic, I also like very much the spirituality going on here. I've been raised Catholic but cannot say I relate myself with this denomination right now; actually I don't relate with any official Christian denomination; but I'm definitely not an atheist. I believe in God, just not in organized religion. However, I appreciate very much what I've read here about homosexuality and the Bible. And after having read and thought about other spiritualities, I keep coming back to Jesus and his teachings. My partner is also without religious denomination, although she is very influenced by pagan/wiccan thinking. While not relating with this (while I highly respect those beliefs, and even more so because my beloved one relate to them). Our discussion about spiritual beliefs are very interesting and a great part of our relationship. I am a very spiritual person and I guess this is a good part of what makes me like your forum.
I have known I'm a lesbian for years; I became fully aware of it when I was 22, but it was present way before that. Contrary to a lot of others here, I'm not coming from a very religious background - as for many of my generation here, my parents were (and still are) very liberal. However they have shown when I was a child and a young teenager a hostile attitude towards homosexuality. I was very afraid to tell them but it went well after all, although the very first months after my coming out were not easy. For my mother I have to say she progressed a lot; for my dad I don't know because we don't talk about this kind of things. But I guess he's at least tolerant (I would need to talk more with him to know if he's really accepting); I recently introduced them to my girlfriend and it all went very well. I'm so happy about that!!
As for my own involvement here about gay rights, well I'm not a big activist although I have participated in discussions about gay marriage when it was discussed a lot, a few years ago (circa 2004), when a lot of letters were published in the newspapers. It was at times frustrating - like repeating the same things "ad nauseam" - but I'm prould I did something. There is this organization here called GRIS (it's a french acronym, the translation would be group for social integration of sexual minorities) who sends people to high schools to talk to students; I support it, even if I can't participate because it requires to have free week days (which I don't have - today is an exception); but I would if I could.
I'll end this very long introduction by saying how I admire your activism in fundamentalist territory - it's very courageous and something that ought to be done. I'll keep hanging out here and maybe participating in some discussions.