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This newsletter’s lofty goal is to open up conversation around coming out late in life as bisexual and/or queer. So, if you’re a late-blooming queer, someone who cares for and embraces those in the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and/or want to see more people living as their full selves, this newsletter is for you.
Subscription Benefits
Free subscribers will receive a free newsletter every Monday morning where I talk about my late blooming queer journey and dive into subjects that intersect with it. Those newsletters will always be accessible—nothing will be archived behind a paywall after being published.
Monthly subscribers ($5 per month) will have the ability to send me direct messages through Substack and have first look at potential special projects.
That means if you have an idea for a potential post or feedback that you don’t want to share publicly, you can share it with me. You’ll also get early access to my other writing or creative endeavors, such as excerpts of a novel I’m writing.
Annual subscribers ($50 per year) will get all the same perks as monthly subscribers PLUS a small handmade item from me mailed to them.
This, of course, will require an annual subscriber to provide me a mailing address to send said item, which could be a hand-embroidered patch, a hand-bound Coptic stitch-style journal and/or another handmade craft from me. And yes, this means you’ll get a new handmade item each time you renew.
Founding subscribers ($200) get all the monthly and annual perks PERMANENTLY plus a signed copy of one of my self-published photobooks.
As a founder you will always be able to DM me, participate in live chats and get first look at special projects. You will receive a handmade item each year on the anniversary of your subscription so long as Sitting Queerly is published. I will ensure you are always considered a paid subscriber.
As for the photobooks, they include a collection of photos from the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon, film shots depicting parenting two young children, and three dark humor Christmas-themed vignettes. Founding subscribers will get to choose which one they’d like to receive.
Again, to get the full benefits, I will need the founder to provide a mailing address.
Who I am
I go by Ty. Professionally, I am a communicator who was an award-winning journalist in a past life and has spent the past 7+ years in public relations. Personally, I am a middle-aged married father of two from the Midwest who is a Pacific Northwesterner by choice but I don’t live where it’s green and wet all the time. I like to make things and I have an unhealthy addiction to chocolate milk.
When you can expect to see this newsletter
I’m gonna be bold and go for a weekly distribution, Mondays at 7 a.m. Pacific.
Why “Sitting Queerly”
Honestly? Because Better Late Than Never was already taken.
The colloquialism “sitting pretty” is relatively young and unique to American English. It denotes being in a confident or comfortable position.
One thing I’ve learned in my crash course queer education is that bisexuals have certain, albeit stereotypical, behavioral touchstones. Using the “finger guns” gesture. Having an affinity for lemon bars. And a tendency to not sit up straight or “normally.”
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