{"id":15055,"date":"2015-05-04T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/05\/04\/15055.html"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:13:37","slug":"morgan-calabrese-on-coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/05\/04\/morgan-calabrese-on-coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Calabres\u00e9 on coming out"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé<\/cite>. It was mostly about a lesbian named Morgan (who always wore an amazing hat) and her friends (mostly lesbians and gay men) and lovers. It was funny and smart and political; I loved the characters, I loved the humor, and I loved the art.<\/p>\r\n

The strip was collected in two books: Morgan Calabresé: The Movie<\/a><\/cite> and Run That Sucker at Six<\/a><\/cite>. And then, as far as I know, the strip ended, and Dunlap moved on to other things.<\/p>\r\n

But every so often, various of the strips come to mind. The one that I think of most often is the one reproduced below; it's still relevant after all these years, and still a useful reminder to me in my own coming-out process.<\/p>\r\n

In mid-2014, I finally went looking for Ms. Dunlap online, and found her website<\/a>, and dropped her a note asking if it would be okay to publish this strip online. She said yes; I promised I would put it up within a few days; and then as happens with so many of my projects, the plan sat there languishing on my to-do list, waiting for me to scan the strip and post it.<\/p>\r\n

Last night, I finally got around to doing it. So here's Morgan and her girlfriend Kyle, in 1988, talking about coming out. Click the thumbnail to view a larger version.<\/p>\r\n

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(Apologies for the slight wobbliness of the scan. I figured if I waited to get access to a flatbed scanner to do it right, it would take me another year to get around to it, so I went with the tools I had on hand.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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