High school lesbians in New York
In "Lesbian Lolitas: High-School Girls Want to Be Gay-ish," Deirdre Dolan writes about high school lesbian relationships in New York. One girl explains, "The girls in junior high are more experimenting with a partner that they think is safe. It’s like practicing for guys. But girls who are in high school do it more for novelty purposes. A lot of popular girls do it. They just figure out that it’s something guys think is hot, and they use that to their advantage. It’s totally O.K. to be a real lesbian, but poser lesbians are usually a kind of insecure girl who feels like she’s not really special for any reason—and I know I kind of sound like Dr. Phil." An older writer quoted in the article says, "The pop-culture terrain about sexuality has changed, and I think it’s a lot more permissible to be gay-ish than it used to be. Not permanently gay, but gay-ish. So I think young people are trying these things on. If you ever go to Ani DiFranco concerts, they’re filled with girl-girl couples between the ages of 12 and 20, and I’m sure a lot of them are not going to end up gay."
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