claire22

The Basics

Name

claire22

Location

Kent, England.

About Me

About Me

19-year old vaguely femmey girl. Currently in my last year of school, hoping to go to Leeds University this September.

Likes reading, the internet, history and watching telly.

Check All That Apply

Lesbian, Gay, Queer

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

Atheist.

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, A Girlfriend

Relationship Status

Single

Virtues

Honest, although not brutally so. Not a slave to trends, not dependent on other people to validate me. Try to help others in trouble!

Vices

Not courageous enough to be fully out.

Are You Out To Your....

Close Friends

What I Like

Favorite Books

Queer history ( i.e. Stone Butch Blues which is amazing), women’s history, anything to do with the classics. I also like old-fashioned comedy, like Jeeves and Wooster, the Jennings books, crime (Agatha Christie), stuff on Poland (I’m part Polish) historical novels and some fantasy stuff, like Terry Pratchett. I will mostly read anything though, I find WIRED very interesting, which is a technology/sci-fi magazine.

Favorite Queer Books

Stone Butch Blues, Sapphistries, Between Girlfriends, poems of Sappho, all the Claudine books, The Swimming Pool Library,Beyond the Pale, Tipping the Velvet, The Comedienne, The Woman in Beige,The Diary of a Nobody,The Diary of a Provincial Lesbian, Annabel,Patience and Sarah, The Color Purple,Before Stonewall,The Others,A gay history of Britain,Unspeakable Love,

Favorite Movies

Dirty Dancing, Made in Dagenham. I haven’t watched as many as I’d like.

Favorite Documentaries

I would really like to watch Prop 8 and the other documentaries looking at queer people-like ‘because the bible tells me so.’ I just have no way of getting them yet…

Favorite TV Shows

Comedies and romantic ones. Everyone likes a romance, right? . I’ll watch anything with lesbians in, loved the BBC programmes on Anne Lister and Lip Service. I also like Make it or Break it, which just so happens to have hot girls not wearing very much in it. They do some gymnastics as well I believe.Also detective programmes-I’m a bit middle-aged like that. And of course, Glee.

Favorite Music

Nneka, Fool’s Garden, VV Brown, R.E.M, Ladyhawke, Mika,La Roux,Florence + the Machine, Corrs, Sara Bareilles, Suzanne Vega, Fleetwood Mac, Beatles, Eartha Kitt, Dionne Bromfield, Sam Cooke, Queen, Lady Gaga, Pink, Nerina Pallot, Madeleine Peyroux, Miss Li, Glee soundtrack, John Lennon, Enya, State Radio, t.A.t.u, Erykah Badu, Asa, Heather Small, Eartha Kitt, Janelle Monae, Holly Miranda, Robyn, Rumer, She Makes War, Nicki Minaj and Pixie Lott. I primarily like female artists I’ve just noticed reading through this.

Favorite Sandwich

Grilled cheese on toast with shallots on it.

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

A cute girl.

Favorite Quotes

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown

I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.
Martha Shelley

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision. ~Lynn Lavner

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I’m giving them my share. ~Rita Mae Brown

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

The humour and satire, coupled to a sadness at the state of the world we live in.

Favorite Writers

Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, Virginia Woolf, Sue Townsend,P.G Wodehouse, Bill Bryson, any lesbian writer anywhere.