[Brandye]

And from a woman ......

I have been bi- since my mid-teens but have lived portions of my life straight and portions as a lesbian. People who have known me only during certain periods of my life "know" me as straight or lesbian, often exclusively. At University, I was blatantly and obnoxiously lesbian until dumped by the Women's Rights leader for another woman; in med school, I lived with a male classmate.

During the last many years I neither hide my bisexuality nor flaunt it. Everyone in this small Scottish District is aware of my engagement and its ending with my finace's death and Eva's twelve year marriage. Similarly, any of them who are observant are aware of our long term relationship. Very few of them know we each have male contact, but some certainly do.

I have been asked and answered honestly. But even in this hotbed of religiously based sexual repression, no one seems overly concerned.