What’s In a Label?

09Mar10

So Jocelyn Bresnick and myself just finished a slideshow story on a woman who is from Nogales and has just recently told her mother she has a girlfriend. I know, lesbian, right? That’s what you’re thinking. But in all actuality, she doesn’t consider herself one or the other. And that got me thinking about labels.

We all consider ourselves a certain way, we see ourselves a certain way. Then there is the other part, and that is how we are perceived by the people around us. Patty, the woman we interviewed, explained it from her sexuality class that there is a spectrum you can put yourself on. On one side is masculine and the other side is feminine. She put herself somewhere in the middle. Where would you put yourself?

There is an organization in Tucson for LGBT’s in the area called WingSpan which is an organization for gay, lesbian and bisexuals to go when they are looking for people like them, a place they feel comfortable and accepted.