Grace Period

[dana_may]

Stockwell. For an all-women dorm, it could be worse. I could very easily be in Martha Cook, where I would have gone insane and/or made all the conservative uptight terrycloth girls uncomfortable with my presence. Why in the hell did I ever want to be in Martha Cook

Comments

[awonderland]

If it makes you feel any better, sometimes having your dating activities ignored can be good. Most of the people in my boyfriends section and probably those in my section assume that we are having sex (as much as I would like that). Its kind of unfortunate to lose your reputation before you lose your virginity. Just a thought. Plus, its a small school so everyone knows everything about you. Anonymity would be nice every once in a while.

[anonymous]

maybe your social dealings with "stockwellians" has nothing to do with your sexuality. maybe if you could look past your own gayness, you could find out why relation with these people are strained. they don't file into your room . . . maybe not because you're gay, but because they don't have as close of a relationship with because you isolate yourself. the whole housing thing seems silly to me. they didn't ask you to live with them . . . so what. maybe they've noticed, just like you have, that the relationship between you guys is not a very strong one. are you so much "friends" as "acquaintances"? it seems to me like you are the latter. did they ask anyone else that happened to be an "acquaintance" to live with them? if so, i may better understand your grievances, but at this moment they seem childlike and ridiculous. what you're writing about sounds natural, people of course hang out as freshman hallmates but the drift apart. people find their own niche at the university and don't necessarily hang out with the same people.

response

[dana_may]

For one, this is a journal. I don't walk the halls of Stockwell crying and blowing my nose into rainbow tissues demanding people listen and care about my gayness. In the entry, I was observing how my friends have started to treat me differently since I started dating.
Ambassador of gayness? Hmm...the imagery that brings to mind...
I'm kind to the people I know. IF the suggestion is to set a positive imagine of the gay community (whatever you believe that involves), then I do it by listening to what my hallmates have to say, asking how they are doing, and being as good of an "acquaintance" or friend as I can be.
Maybe you took personal offense to the entry, but keep in mind that Im only pointing out how my hallmates treat me. THey are good people who treat me fine except when it comes to a certain part of my life. That is where I notice the difference.

Um, what?

[anonymous]

Hi. I don't know you. But I do know Dana. So here's what I have to say in response to what you said

ass bag

[anonymous]

What the fuck is your problem? Her "gayness" is much cooler than your straightness. You are fucking ignorant. Dana's sex life I much more interesting than your's. Quit hatin' beeyatch! Get to know Dana before you write her off as a whiny lesbian. She is anything but. She's one of the funniest people ever and she isn't fucked up. Plus, she isn't judgmental and doesn't go around writing in peoples' live journals who doesn't even know. Rock on Dana!