Gay Democracy
December 18, 2007
Julia Suryakusuma
I REMEMBER how it was when I became a teenager, when my self- and sexual awareness started to grow together with budding breasts, widening hips and blood oozing out every month. I was told I was just becoming a woman, but it was all very mysterious—even scary at times. And then there were the boys, the second ‘curse’: a sour