Atypical Trans Late Bloomer

At the end of September I wanted to set down my impressions on having lived homeless for most of 2019. I chose to get away from the metro area and went to a small town about 100 miles away where I knew a few people. It's amazing how fast you can fall off the "norm" of having a place and be in a new world. The days suck, the nights crawl by slowly and I could see how one might easily turn to drugs or drinking as a palliative. January, February, March I stayed in a friend's house which was empty because they were spending the winter in Florida. This was great, although the small town is dark and isolated during these months. April I spent in an extra bedroom at another friend's house. May, June, July, August, and September I lived in a tent and out of my car. Here's what I learned about being homeless. You need a place to store things. I put a few plastic buckets in a friend's basement. I left the rest in my car. The back-left seat was clean clothes, the ...

Several years ago, when I first heard about Bi-Visibility (and it's mate, Bisexual Invisibility, I was so clueless I thought: why do bisexuals need additional visibility, like brighter lights on their bicycles? So the thought experiment goes like this: You see two men holding hands. You see a man and a woman holding hands You see two women holding hands. What have you seen? Answer A: Four gay people and two heterosexuals Answer B: Six Bisexuals It's pretty easy to conclude that bisexuality is not easily observable. Straight people and gay people tend to classify bisexuals the same way: the bisexuals are gay people in denial, or straight people transitioning into being gay, or disturbed selfish people who want to have sex with everybody, or just nice people who are confused. In this tendency to minimize bisexuality, to erase bisexuality , to render bisexuality invisible, both gay people and straight people find themselves aligned as monosexuals . Monosexuals are s...

The Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, NY has filed for bankruptcy to preserve their assets (buildings, stuff, money) in the face of litigation from victims who were raped or abused by priests. The Chapter 11 filing calls for a reorganization of the Diocese's assets , with the intent of the Diocese surviving and continuing after the bankruptcy is complete. It will provide for a full accounting of the Diocese's assets. The Church, like the Mafia, operates in a highly compartmentalized structure. The Church claims that all responsibility for whatever happened in Rochester stops at the Diocesan level; the fortunes of the American church, or the global church, or the Vatican are not at risk (the Church says). It's very convenient. More than anything else, the cynical attempts to limit responsibility to the local corporation, and to limit liability of the local corporation, demonstrate the moral bankruptcy of the Catholic Church to bear the responsibility for the damage a...