About the Conservative Lesbian

I am a fifty year old lesbian in a 15+ year committed relationship living in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. who [gasp!] has a generally conservative worldview and usually votes Republican. I grew up in a suburb of Portland, Oregon and I’ve worked for 23 years as a software developer in the D.C. metro area after leaving the U.S. Navy in 1985.

I came out to my parents in 1990 after dating a number of women, at which point they all but disowned me. I would not see them again for another seventeen years until last November, when we had a reunion.  

I became a Christian at a young age and spent years reconciling my faith with being Gay. I finally came to the conclusion that God made me the way I am and that He loves me unconditionally.  We don’t currently attend church, but only because we can’t seem to find one that’s a good fit.

I met my spouse in 1992 and we’ve just celebrated our fifteen year anniversary of our commitment ceremony.  We live in a big house in the ‘burbs that we share with our six cats, two dogs, a cockatiel, and five fishtanks. We are also low-grade biker trash with three Harley-Davidsons between the two of us: An Electraglide, a Softail Deluxe, and a 1992 Electraglide Sport as a project bike. 

I am a committed gun owner with a Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit, and I fully believe in the 2nd Amendment as an individual right.  Quite frankly, I thought the recent Heller decision did not nearly go far enough.  I was really hoping for the repeal of the 1939 National Firearms Act, the 1968 Gun Control Act, and the Firearms Owner Protection (ha!) Act.

My hobbies include skewering weak-minded liberals on their absurd views based on faulty analysis and defective logic, saltwater fish, cooking, eating sushi, travel, and trains, and I started this blog because I think I have a unique perspective on the world worth sharing.