Welcome to Lesbian Life!

Kathy Belge has been the About.com Guide to Lesbian Life since 2003. She came out as a lesbian as a teenager, and enjoys helping other lesbians with coming out and living happy, healthy lives.

Experience

Kathy has been a lesbian activist for more than 30 years. She has been an advocate and counselor for LGBT youth for more than 10 years. Kathy writes a lesbian advice column, "Lipstick & Dipstick" for Curve magazine, and is a co-author of two books, Lipstick & Dipstick's Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships (Alyson Books, 2007) and Queer: The Ultimate Guide for LGBT Teens (Zest, 2011).

Education

Kathy earned a B.A. from Syracuse University with a dual major in journalism and history. Her senior research project was a look into the culture of American lesbian bars and pulp novels of the 1950s and 60s. She collects lesbian pulp fiction.

About MyDomaine and Dotdash

MyDomaine is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.