Dear Lynn,
TO ALL, the information on our website is provide to support for the gender diverse community ... we grant blanket permission to use this material in any manner necessary. Naturally, we appreciate it when you acknowledge source and give credit.
Thank you for the entry in our guestbook ... yes, I do
get a little carried away with the "superiority" for
the potential of Gay/Bi relationships and our function
in society. However, it's a little thing to offset
some of the ego damage done by organized religion to
people who should not be considered throw away people.
My mother, my father, my grandparents, my aunts and
uncles, many of my dearest friends are heterosexual
and wonderful people, special, superior not because of
their sexuality but because of their respectability
and desire to live honestly and well ... gay/bi
relationships have that capacity for superiority too,
not in comparison to heterosexuality, but shoulder to
shoulder with it. Love, Melissa Ann hadley
I recently visited my friend Laura Tallent (Nee O'Connor). We spoke of you and I am certain she would want me to say hello and tell you that she is well and prosperous. In Sisterhood I am,
Brianne Elizabeth Corbett Of course there is always one defining moment such as the time when I was the only woman at work not to be invited to the baby shower. I use these sub conscious lapses to bring myself back to reality whenever I get the idea that I am fully accepted as a woman. I have spent so many years fighting and struggling to get where I am today that I am inured to philosophical gender discourse. You have re-kindled my interest. Thank you, Petra.
I believe without a doubt that you didn't feel right about the gender role you were being pressured to conform to, or that, in your mind, knowing of no alternatives, you felt you must, therefore, be a girl. Unfortunately gender isn't that simple to understand and figure out as an adult, let alone as an eight year old child. Just one of missing concepts is that there are many factors which make us comfortable as women, men, or gender blends, and until science, medicine, and society come together to aid in understanding human gender and sexuality, we are all floundering a bit. When we manage to find a niche in society that is comfortable for us, one in which we obtain some joy in life, that is all we can expect ... any of us. You have done well, dear sister, Dri-Anna. Keep on!
Thank you for a wonderful entry in our guest book. You are right.Christians, Jews, and Moslems will continue to ridicule anddenigrate us. However, with the passage of time their controldiminishes and, although the pendulum swings back and forth, itedges continually toward a time when the humanity in our specieswill rise above the pettiness in organized religion. Change willcome slowly, the laity must come to a place where it no longeraccepts messages of hate toward others. But a time will come"when the lion lays down with the lamb"; the lion, secularhumanists, and the lamb, those who believe in organized religion.We are a species still in our infancy ... how I wish I could seewhat we will make out of ourselves.
email: jedurham@fuse.net
name: Jamie
country: USA
message: Your site is great. I have read Laura's Autobiography. It is a welcome addition to the true stories of real life. Laura, I appreciate the great honesty of what you wrote. I can identify with so much of what you wrote, as I also, am of that generation of elders who explored some of the path of diversity. The hardest task I ever faced was telling my five grown children, my grandchildren, and my wife of who am. I am still on that great adventure of finding myself. "Did I ever figure out who I would be when I grew up???? :)" So far, I am still exploring. C'est une bonne journe' pour le voyage.
Though my typing is atrocious, I hope you are able to read this.
If you can read this, someday we must discuss. Ideas are toys to be played with.
Thank you all, and may your rainbow never end.
email: s.weston@easynet.co.uk
name: Simon Weston
country: United Kingdom
message: I have been up all night reading your webpages and listening to your beautiful music. The practise of Wicca has always interested me, and these web pages and sites have truly enlightened me. Congratulations!
email: s.weston@easynet.co.uk
name: Simon Weston
country: United Kingdom
message: This has to be one of the best sites on the Internet!
email: Gitah@Hotmail.com
name: Gita Holodovskya
country: USA
message: Please send me some more information, my address is 164 Stony Creek Drive, Houston, Texas, 77024! I love the ideas expressed on your page!
email: julia@reachout.demon.co.uk
name: Julia Gordon
country: Scotland
message: A wealth of information for transgendered individuals with an unsated need for some relevant spiritual dimension to our existance.
As editor of "The Tartan Skirt", a quarterly publication serving the Scottish transgender community, may I request permission to dip into your site for material to include in our magazine? I would be very pleased to acknowledge source, etc.
Kind regards,
Julia
email: Claudiak1@aol.com
name: Claudia Kenwrthy
country: USA
message: I feel it is a very infomative site and well laid out. Keep it up. Very good
email: rottnpeach@aol.com
name: Garth
country: USA
message: Although I disagree on the so called superiority of Gay/bi relationships as apposed to heterosexuals as expressed on your site...I am overjoyed by virtually everything here! I'm particulary interested in your ideas on secular humanism and anti-theism. Your thoughts expressed here are well taken. I'd like to express my kudos to you on a great site. I'm in the process of writing a novel on humanism and the destructive(emotionally) nature of organized religion(christianity)...I would love to draw upon your knowledge from time to time with an email here and there :). Thanks
Keep up the great site!!!
email: anne@llewellyn.com
name: Anne Marie
country: U.S.A.
message: Hi! I think the art in this site was absolutely breath-taking! As a professional designer, I would like some information on where you purchased the rights to use these images. I am especially interested in Giovanni Battista's Juno and Luna, Rossetti's Astarte Syriaca, and of course, everything by Boticelli.
Thankyou for putting the historical goddess on the Web!
Blessed Be!
Anne Marie Garrison
email: melissa57@juno.com
name: Melissa Ann Hadley
country: North America
message: Wow !! I never really knew the story behind Joan of Arc
I found it very interesting with a sad ending. I am a christian
myself and I believe that had Christ been walking on the earth at that
time he would have rebuked the church. The story behind
We'Wha was very fastinating. He/She were walking the with us know I
would love to see how washington would precieve her now.
Great sight you have hear so much info I will be back to study more.
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name: Moonsinger
country: USA
message: Merry Meet! Thanks for providing such lovely poetry
for us surfers! please visit me at geocities.com/Area51/Lair/9977
and sign my book, too. Bright blessings, Moonsinger
email: breeliz@mediaone.net
name: Brianne Elizabeth Corbett
country: Gendervaria
message: Gallae...
Once again, your brilliance manifests itself in your work. I weep at the death words of We'Wha. I thank you for bringing those words to us all. I thank you for all the rest... the so much more. If there is a HER, you are truly blessed of HER daughters.
email: petrahof@mediaone.net
name: Petra Lynn Hofmann
country: Chicago,IL
message: This site is breathtaking,inspiring and comforting to this middle aged transexual woman. I am neither man nor woman but of a third gender defined by me and our culture. Fortunately my birth certificate now says I was born female. Furthermore, I am fortunate to have finally found a good job where no one seems to mind having one who looks a lot like a man, sounds like a man and pees as a woman working amoungst them. It is indeed refreshing to read material that doesn't parrot the '50's line, "I knew when I was 5 years old that I was a woman!" I have NEVER been happier in my entire life.
email: jeremy@got.net
name: jeremy
country: US
message: Though I have only begun to scratch the surface of what
you have created here, I have already had to wipe tears
from my eyes several times. Thank for you for this
beautiful waypoint on the way to discovering who I am.
I am soooo relieved...
email: CHERYLAHAM@AOL.COM
name: Cheryl
country: United States
message: Where's my picture???Ha. How are you doing? Finally found your website! Take care! See you soon!
email: kingcasey_iii@hotmai.com
name: Casey Luk
country: Canada
message: This Gallae philosophy is very good and peaceful. Perhaps with this age of 20th century democracy (yes I agree, even if Christian influences our political institutions),
I think we're on the threshold of breaking through the closed mindedness that kept us pinned down.
It's time now for our peaceful enlightenment to truly shine, and not the dark fog of unenlightened hatred.
Asian, African, First Nations, Celtic, Pagan, beliefs are long over due to return us to prosperity.
email: xxxxxxxxxx
name: Jerry
country: USA
message: Your site offers much food for thought. Thanks!
email: dri@onr.com
name: Dri-Anna Davis
country: USA
message: For Country, I was tempted to state.... Republic of Texas.
Comment on your triad of gender writings...... Lots of words there and in some instances contradictions are there. Perhaps you intended it that way to provide the reader with the incentive to digest and ponder this anomaly called Gender Variant.
However, right near the beginning in the first of the three writings, you stated something that certainly bore witness to me that you are not writing of me. I have never felt like a woman or a man. How are they supposed to feel? What did occur, is that at 8 years of age, I KNEW without a doubt that I was female. Even though what was between my legs did not match. Did a mistake of nature occur? NO...... I believe that what ever the enity that is the Creator, it never makes mistakes, it does make some of us different. I am a Woman who is described as a M2F TS. I have been undergoing HRT for just under two years, am approaching completion of one year of the RLT/RLE and will be undergoing SRS/GRS in July 2000 (finances you know) I attempted from the age of 8 to 54 years of age to convince myself I was NOT a woman. In the end, it nearly cost me my life. Now when I awaken each morning, I give thanks and celebrate that I can live and celebrate each day as to who I really am, a WOMAN.
Sister Love Dear(s) Dri-Anna (Dixie)
Texas is as big and impressive as a country ... no argument from me.
We are thrilled that you have found happiness. WE have attempted, on our website to express a wide diversity of views and possibilities, all, we hope, consistent with a rational and realistic view of ourselves, gender variance, and our society. The idea that someone "KNEW" at eight years of age, without a doubt, that (s)he was female, is a sad commentary on our society and the manner in which it educates and understands children. You must have been in immense pain!
email: monitwin@email.msn.com
name: Monica Geist
country: USA
message: Hi Joan! I liked your site very much! I looked at your art work and really liked 'Look Towards the Light' and The Tiger,at rest, will soon spring' the best! Thanks for visiting my site and saying such kind words! I appreciate it! :D Well have a wonderful day and I will be back to see your site again!!! :D
email: BabyRett@aol.com
name: Loretta
country: USA
message: Wonderful. Very interesting and informative. A true delight.
email: czirconia@hotmail.com
name: Candace Zhang
country: U.S.A.
message: A dear friend of mine is a TG and told me of We'wha, as I found an icon of her in a catalogue, which I got for my friend. However, we both thought it was rather soulless, and she was portrayed as a man. So I have embarked on painting my own icon, and here I am in the library, looking up Zuni things as the photos of We'wha are in black and white and blurry. Thanks for the great information and site. I'll investigate more later. Keep up the good work! CZ
email: mika.polamo@helsinki.fi
name: Mika
country: Fin
message: As a new ISPE just passing by, but could leave
without giving "a big hug" to the people whose
lives have obviously been "not that easy"
email: suzi_1@geocities.com
name: Suzi James
country: UK
message: Fabulous! As someone just wrote me 'at last, something on the internet worth reading!". As one who is transgendered, or a gender varient in your words, I felt a strong affinity with most of the views expressed. If you have time, I invite you to view my more humble site at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/4558/
I stumbled across your site whilst researching the berdache.
Peace and Love.
email: a.rashid@ix.netcom.com
name: K. L. Freeze
country:
message: Where have you been all my life? I'm amazed, astounded, and
pleased as punch. Your sources and resources may very well be the
very things I need as I pursue my life and career as a fourth-gendered soul
in an otherwise binary world.
email: Mark.Borezo@edwards.boc.com
name: Mark Borezo
country: USA
message: Great site
email: daragon@magpage.com
name: Darleen Aragon
country: USA
message: Being 1 of 3... it was great to find others living such an alternate life style... to make ours more diverse. We are 2 females, 1 male. 1 practicing Witch, 1 recovering Catholic turned not practicing Baptist,
1 non-demoinational not practicing anything. We all love the ren time and have costumes and go to Annapolis every year.
We are 2 months into our second year and are comming out to family...already have to friends.. and "most" of our worker mates... #2 would loose her job - we think ... if she came out totaly. It would be OK to be lesbian... but not a triad-er We are begining to talk HandFasting sometime next year. Think bright blessing as #2 goes to tell her Mother of her loving relationship with #1 and #3...
blessed be!