i had a straight first kiss, even though i started a gay/straight alliance. i was in heavy denial in middle school and fooled around too much with boys. so my first kiss was with one of them, although i ended up not so much kissing them as other things.
still, my first girlfriend read something as me having lots of kissing experience and so, as to not disappoint her, my first real kiss was actually pretending that i knew what i was doing and "teaching her" as i taught myself. to jackson five, no less.
my first kiss with my husband was amazing. i lived on campus with roomates that i hated, and he had come up to see kate bornstein speak at my school. he had been invited to stay over because i my school is three hours from where he lives. i had a cold at the time, and at one point before the show, on the way there, i mentioned wanting to kiss him (this was the second time we'd met in person; i met him through reading his zine). i couldn't, however, because of my cold. made admitting it easier.
as we were waiting for the show to start, i had some sobe and offered a sip to cubbie (the other person in this story, yes). he accepted, and one of us mentioned saucily that he had my germs, so. . .
so after the show we waited in a long line to meet kate (ze blessed us, so happy to see two genderqueer totlets so obviously smitten). afterward, in my attempts to stay away from my roomates we wandered around campus. there are amazing sights there, lights that shift color all through the rainbow and set up so that you can see them, a camera obscura.
i took cubbie into the camera obscura to see the lights - camera obscura means "dark room" and the concept is that you can see things from outside through a very small hole, light projects into the dark upside down on the opposite wall. you can read more about them
here. i was being completely innocent in these maneuvers, which is funny because i had wandered around campus with a previous crush pointing out all these places to make out and never getting up the nerve. . .
the camera obscura is essentially a dark closet. closets, although bad for some reasons, are great places for kisses. so we kissed, awkwardly as we realized that we could, and it all fit in to place. i was breathless, and not just because i couldn't breathe out of my nose.
this was about ten thirty, eleven. we continued around campus, kissing all the while, until we stumbled home around four. i still was nervous enough to offer cubbie the couch cushions to sleep on, on the floor. that was silly of me.
Sweetie, I'm a fag. I been there. - Tara (Dead Things shooting script)