Memoirs

QUIRK-E members’ stories about their unique and inspiring lives.

Grandma

Farren Gillaspie

The lane was an uneven gravel pathway with multiple depressions filled with frozen muddy water. The air was crisp and ...

Chasing After What Do I Deconstruct Myself?

River Glen

 Originally Published in Wrinkles Ten days to go till my partial tit amputation (breast reduction surgery). Am I having second ...

A Flaunting of Dykes

Lorri Rudland

Many years ago, in August 1984, in anticipation of the upcoming the Gay Pride March, several friends and I tried ...

Rita

Sheila Gilhooly

Before she was famous, Rita and her kids lived with me on Lorne Ave. Laura was 14 at the time, ...

Radical Drag Anyone?

Greg Bourgeois

As fall is beginning, people inevitably start kidding around and asking me, “So, are you going to strap on a ...

Present at the Creation

Greg Bourgeois

[We are very sad to note that Greg passed away suddenly in November 2024. This was one of his last ...

Meeting a New Challenge

Chris Morrissey

It all started while I was on vacation in Puerto Vallarta. I noticed just a small sore on the heel ...

Daisy Air Rifle

Janie Cawley

When I was six, I saw an ad for a Daisy Air Rifle on the back of one of my ...

First Crush

Farren Gillaspie

When talking about my youth it can often sound like a Charles Dickens novel. As well as the worst of ...

Lucy the Cat Meets Santa at the Mall

Lorri Rudland

Jane’s cat, Lucy, had been quite naughty this year so Jane planned to take her to visit Santa Claus at ...

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