Outside the Lavender Closet

<br><br><b>What is it that makes us straight or gay? <br>Is it environment or genetics? <br>Choice chance or maybe even persuasion?</b><br><br>The answer to this age-old question is one that fledgling writer Margaret Allen sets out to discover as she endeavors to complete her first book. Taking on a subject she believes she knows well she begins a very human odyssey examining the lives of gay women all of whom come from diverse backgrounds and mindsets. <br><br>Among those whom we meet are ���<br><br>the florist whose parents try to ���cure��� her of her homosexuality; <br>the twins who separated at birth live their lives at opposite ends of the economic spectrum;<br>the radiant redhead and her three failed marriages; <br>the poet who spent most of her young adult years as a nun;<br>the Kentucky woman who as a new bride makes a rather shocking discovery; <br>and the non-verbal wheelchair-bound woman who is a political activist with an extraordinary ability to communicate. <br><br>As we share in their deeply personal narratives Margaret���s book ultimately raises the question: ���Are relationships between two women really all that different than heterosexual ones?���<br><br>Outside the Lavender Closet brings to life a collection of contemporary stories inspired by actual women and true events.