FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
More answers to your frequently asked questions coming soon!
HOTLINES. If you are in crisis (feel like running away, hurting yourself or someone else, or are being hurt by another person) and need to talk (even anonymously) right away, talk to someone responsible who you know, or call a Hotline. Hotlines are anonymous and many operate 24-hours a day. It can be great to hear the voice of someone who volunteers just because they care to help others. List of many differently focused hotlines: Info and numbers: Here
LGBTQI 24 Hour Crisis Hotline:
THE TREVOR PROJECT LifeLine 1-866-488-7386
How long will you take to answer my question?
Coming Out:
How do I know if I’m Queer? Bisexual? A Lesbian?
More on coming out to yourself: Cass Identity Model. Coming out in 6 stages.
What’s the best way to come out? Hint: There’s no right answer. Only the one that’s right for you. (New York Times Interactive Feature on the thousands of different ways people come out)
I think I’m Bi, but I haven’t had any experience. Shouldn’t I practice with other girls to find out?
Can sexuality change over a lifetime? Yes.
What to do if you’re outed before you’re ready.
Life and Dating:
How do I ask out that girl I don’t know very well?.
How do I find more queer friends?
How do I meet friends/girlfriends in lesbian bars?
Can labels ever be a good thing?
Dating someone who is starting to question their gender…
Queer Girl Sex Resources/How to
How to have lesbian sex (By Autostraddle)
Lesbian Safe Sex 101 (Autostraddle)
Lesbian SM Safety Manual * Edited by Pat Califa
*For those of you who are curious about why people struggle intellectually and emotionally with being a feminist, queer, and being kinky here’s a little history about how the overlapping between these communities has been really complicated and contentious. And here and here and here is a little more.
Going to the Gynocologist (Autostraddle)
Other resources (more to come):
Resources for Transfolks, Intersex, BiSexual, Men, Women List from LYRIC.
Domestic Violence: National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−SAFE (7233) or TTY 1−800−787−3224 http://www.thehotline.org/
Maya Johansson, Therapist in San Francisco
Maya Johansson is a psychotherapist intern in private practice in San Francisco where she sees individuals and couples working to improve their relationships of all kinds. She specializes in the queer community but works with straight folks too. She is poly-friendly and works with folks of diverse genders and sexualities. If there are issues you’d like to explore on a deeper level than can be addressed here, feel free to call her for a free consultation to see if she’s a good fit for your needs. Please see her Facebook page for more information.
More QGQ things:
Facebook Like QgQ!
Lesbians in SF (LISF): Cat Perez (a different Cat) Photoblogging San Francisco Lesbian style
Autostraddle (more great advice: lesbian focused, short and to the point.)
Tumblr Spotlight LGBTQ Directory of LGBTQ tumblrs
Bay Area Open Minds: A Group of San Francisco Bay Area, California psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience.
