In the last US presidential primary, Iowa put an openly gay presidential candidate at the top of their democratic ballot.

Often, those of us who identify with the LGBTQ+ list are the first group to champion the idea that you cannot change who or what you are attracted to, that you inherently know who makes your heart flutter and is capable of breaking it. She said that she doesn't think she can be with me, since she finds the idea of me dressing up really unattractive.I just put them on wanting to know how they felt and then take it off immediately because I was really scared someone would catch me like that.

States he no way is gay or bisexual and wants our marriage to survive, but finding this very difficult to deal with. If you are going to try to make this work or wishing to understand this side of him, then keep reading. I like to think we discovered something about ourselves and the real treasure was the lessons we learned along the way. While it is my understanding that being a CD is not the same as a transvestic fetish, much of what you have written about your relationship with Liz is so comforting and calming to my senses after reading all negatives today. I suppose I haven’t written very much about what it’s like to be a married crossdresser, other than how awesome it is to have a super-supportive wife, but one thing that I think doesn’t necessarily get heard much of is how the partner of crossdressers think of it, how they deal with it, and what their hopes and fears are.Since her total rejection of my urges to do crossdressing years before I had loaded myself with remorse and guilt and didn’t want to talk about it. Although obvious, it bears stating: The preponderance of people who are feminine are women, not all – The majority of masculine people are men, not all. i know it’s probably the cultural imbedded norms around it that make me feel unconformable, after all they are “just” clothes but I can’t shake how I feel. It doesn’t mean you mightn’t tolerate, accept or even learn to embrace it one day but it is a shift in the paradigm you agreed to. And to make sure I couldn’t opt out of telling her, I showed up to a lunch date with my nails painted — she complimented me and asked me about it with genuine wonder.