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Martinique: Coming Out Advice

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 @ 23:55 UTC

by Alice Backer

Countries:: Martinique, Guadeloupe
Topics:: Gender, Health, LGBT

Le Blog de [Moi] encourages (Fr) local lesbians to accept their sexuality: “Know that being homosexual doesn't rime (no longer rimes?) with being unhappy (…) If one day (…) “they ” find out, they'll gossip one, two (three???) months then less and less, then from time to time and then finally you'll be “like furniture” to them (sorry fame cannot last)! (…) It's not dirty. You're not sick. You just have a different sexuality.”

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