And railwaycharm, 75% are sucked into the life style? Sucked… in??? How does one get sucked into homosexuality? Does one have to be sucked off by a homosexual to become one?

I think you guys are jealous or something, otherwise you wouldn’t be whining.

And Shelton, that’s a beautiful story.

Anyways I just wanted to say that I’m gay and I’m Korean (shocking!) and I’m proud whether you like it or not!

I Name My First Lesbian

You’ve heard of a boy name Sue, well I gotta Korean girl named Steve.

By COY ASKEW
Ahssa! Editor

I don’t know that she’s a lesbian, but damn if she doesn’t look and act like one.

It was an honest enough mistake. At the beginning of each semester, yours truly gets to play the age old game of Name The Korean. I turned to my right and I saw a kid that looked like your average male Korean kid.

I didn’t really think much of it — I put a bunch of male names on the board and let the kid pick which one he wanted.

Little did I know that I wasn’t naming a male Korean…I was naming a FEMALE Korean.

After weeks and weeks of teaching the girl, I saw her zip out of the girl’s bathroom and I said to him/her, “STEVE, WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THE GIRL’S BATHROOM?”

The moment I said it, I remember KHK telling me about one of my students who I thought was a boy but was really a girl.

And I realized it was Steve.

Seeing Steve leave the girl’s bathroom reminded me of this girl when I was a kid who looked and acted the same way. Everyone assumed she was a boy or…uh…really wanted to BE a boy. Later, of course, people would mumble something inaudible whenever the topic of her significant other came up. “Yeah, she’s mumble mumble mumble with mumble mumble.”

Oh. Is that so?

Anyway, back to Steve.

Once I realize Steve was a girl, I started taking a closer look at her. One close look and Steve pretty much looked like every dom I’ve ever met. Her hair was short, her shirt flannel and her hands all over the cutest young fem you ever did see. I tried as hard as I could to see any sign that it was a girl and not a boy in front of me, and I just couldn’t see it. Looked all boy to me.

These days, I look at Steve and Julie and think, “Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing?”

See, Korean culture is EXTREMELY conservative, at least on the face of it — no pun intended — and the idea that I might have a little pre-pubescent lesbian in one of my classes I find ever so delicious. “Steve, Steve, Steve, you need to take your little twinky there to a nice New England town and raise a couple of gender neutral chillens,” I think while I try to ponder what fate awaits Steve.

The position of Julie in Steve’s world I find perplexing. Is Steve just going through a phase, or is she going to grow up to be…uh…a lesbian? In such a conservative society, why does Julie seem so happy with Steve touching her all the time. I mean, I know all about how Koreans have a completely different idea about same-sex touching vis-a-vis the West, but dude, Steve looks and acts like a Western lesbian. (Which, come to think of it, would be a great band name. “You do NOT FUCK with the Western Lesbians! The Western Lesbians carry ALL their own equipment!”)

I tried to cover for Steve, Julie and their Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name when a bunch of girls from the other side of the room started to suggest that Julie and Steve were a couple.

“No, no, their just friends guys. Stop talking like that,” I said.

There talk did cause me to walk over to Steve and say, “Steve, you need a girl’s name. How about Sue? That’s a good girl’s name,” I said.

“No, TeaCha! I like Steve!”

Fight the power, my young lesbian in training. Fight the power.