Seven Days Personals - Introducing: Vermonters

NB, queer, kinky, shy author and historian seeks friends, fellow artists, and/or sex partners of all genders. Capture my attention by knowing how to truly converse and listen.

Let's make silly puns, talk about our creative work, and bike around Burlington.

If you want to hear about my imaginary, magical Vermont town of Hardship, the historical queers I keep finding, or Jareth as role model, hit me up.

In other adjectives, I'm a recently reactivated Unitarian Universalist looking for people to share simple delights with, whether it's savoring the season's first maple creemee, saying hi to a kidsy on the bus, jumping in fall leaves to make them crunch, or watching the sun reflect off Lake Champlain. Okay, sure, I can enjoy all those bike rides and farmer's markets and Vermont Stage productions and Fleming Museum exhibits and local history talks and cemetery tours by myself, but I'd much rather share them with others.

I have three major creative pursuits: fiction, dolls, and history. Fiction, largely set in Hardship, Vermont, explores the magical history of a queer little town.

My dolls [12" articulated figures that I sculpt heads for, customize, make sets and stories for, and photograph] often represent my story characters.

As for history, I like to go deep into untold stories, like that of the impoverished single mother in Williston in 1840 whose baby was sold for $100 without her input or the trans guy in southern Vermont who transitioned from feminine to masculine four times between 1901 and 1910 before he succeeded. That history informs my fiction.

As the headline suggests, I have some romantic and fantastical tendencies and a great belief in the power of the imagination [especially when personified by ambiguous and allusive figures in suggestive clothes].