Later-life lesbians
”It’s extremely common… The standard narrative that folks are used to hearing — if you have same-sex attraction, you got it when you were 9 and either acted on it or repressed it — is an oversimplification… Some women will say, ‘I had attractions to friends over the years,’ but not necessarily interpret that as homosexuality…. Later-life transitions are often tied to a strong emotional bond.”
Lisa Diamond, a University of Utah professor, using Meredith Baxter’s recent coming out process to explain how someone like her — a famous actress, married three times with five kids — ends up entering a relationship with another woman. (Washington Post)
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