[blindlgbtpride] Intro

[dorenefc at aol.com]

Hi All

I have been reading people's introductions with interest and decided to 
post a little about myself:

My name is Dorene.

I live in Seattle and identify as bi and have had relationships with 
women since college. I listed my relationship status on Facebook as 
it's complicated for two days and decided that was too much. I have a 
husband from Russia who is deaf, gay and not ethnically Russian. We 
have been separated for several years but have not gotten around to 
getting divorced. I feel lucky to live in Seattle because it's both 
socialy and legally easy to be open about lots of things.

I just turned 50 this year. I came of age in the early 1980's when 
radical feminist and lesbian were often mixed in people's thinking. 
Feminism is more important to me than, say, sports. I like reading, 
computers, social justice activism.

I have had crummy vision all my life with different variations 
depending on the sequence of surgeries. I feel lucky that I could read 
print allthe way through my MA but I also feel frustrated not to have 
had more ways to think iabout making some things easier, less tiring. I 
became legally blind about 7 years ago so I have all kinds of vision 
dependent habits and really mediocre skills of blindness. Most of the 
time I am okay with embracing the adventure of it all. Well, most of 
the time.

I think it was last summer I posted something wondering how many of us 
do things to be visible for younger blind people dealing with sexual 
identity issues. I posted the query but I still have not done much 
about it.

But I am curious, who else is out there on this list.

Dorene Cornwell
Seattle WA