What it's all about

Small town gay mom, sounds simple enough right? I mean if by the title you can't figure out who I am and what I will be writing about maybe this blog isn't for you. Small town gay mom is a title that at first (and still at times) a bit hard to swallow. To be gay in a town of 6,000 where the nearest LGBT community center is at least a hundred miles away is just as hard as it sounds. Believe it or not I do know a few fellow gays both male and female but the sense of community really isn't there. Its almost like a secret society for us we nod our heads say whats up but to be loud and proud here really just isn't our thing. Why you might ask? Why in 2012 can't a gay individual walk down the streets of any city and any country in the world? One word ignorance. Some people like to use other words like hate but ignorance works so much better. People aren't genetically made up to hate its something that is passed down like some old family heirloom. Ignorance on the other hand is what I (dirty little hippie) would like to think the majority of peoples issue with gays. They just plain don't know any better, they are uneducated, and simply plain cowards to find out what makes us so different from them. It would be quite the learning process but I think that if more people got educated on what being "gay" actually means they would see we are no different from them and all in all would get over their ignorance. So part of my blog is going to be my story. My story isn't anything special. My story is like hundreds of other stories out there and the more people who put out their own stories the better the world would be. Havery Milk once said " If every man who is gay would just come out, we would win this battle." Now lets slow down for just a second I do not think that my little bitty blog will make every closeted person come out, but if it makes just one feel comfortable enough to do so my job is done.  So read if you will my tale of turning gay (yes there was a time I thought I was the straightest girl in the world, my girlfriend will so tell you different) and find some insight on what it is to be a small town gay mom.