Cape Town Lesbians

Cape Town has many amazing lesbian couples, and each month we take a closer look into the life one one such couple. A special thanks to Ayesha and Candice for sharing their story with us this month.

Hello girls,

I've got some bad news. A server crashed at the company that is hosting www.capetownlesbians.co.za - And even though they make backups every 24 hours, these backups were also destroyed when their server crashed. Which means that the website is set back to a January version. I will be moving to a more secure and reliable hosting company. And I will be uploading most of the articles that were on the website again. Please be patient, as this will take many many hours to really get the website back up to date.

Kind Regards,
Lara

“It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself” Lester Burnham, American Beauty

For many years, I have lived by a code of strict self control designed specifically to stop myself from facing up to another heartbreak. I fell in love once, it ended terribly and I thought I would die from the pain. Yet, I didn’t die, I survived to dance another day, but I decided that that dark and terrifying place was somewhere I never wanted to go ever again. That pain of loss took me to the brink of sanity and I feared for a moment that I might fall over the edge into the abyss. For a person who values their peace of mind, that was a trial of the most unsettling nature.

Growing up is a difficult thing to do! You have to:

Now, these criteria are not necessarily what we’d like for ourselves- but rather our mothers’ EXPECTATIONS. Her payback for all the sacrifices she’s ever had to make from year 0 to year 21. And so help you if you don’t conform! You are then faced with the horror of horrors- Mum’s DISAPPOINTMENT. Violence I can handle. Throw me with a shoe or large vase; chase me with a broomstick! Anything! But don’t tell me I’ve disappointed my mum! That’s like, harsh, dude…

Cape Town has many amazing lesbian couples, and each month we take a closer look into the life one one such couple. A special thanks to Kirsty and Catherine for sharing their story with us this month.

Are you straight, or are you gay? Are you bi, or are you les? Are you fem, or are you butch? Are you black, or are you white?

We are so preoccupied with labels and boxes that we forget about the individual behind the tag.

Who are we really?