Lucille Clifton, cruelty. don’t talk to me about cruelty, [from Next, 1987], in The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010, Edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser, Foreword by Toni Morrison, Afterword by Keving Young, BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, 2012, p. 269 (reading by Lucille Clifton here)
I always wonder how many nuns, all the way up to the modern day, were queer women who probably didn't even know they were queer, and just knew that the idea of marrying a man sounded worse than death and being around other women all the time sounded like paradise, and how many of them fell in love with another nun, and even if they were chaste and never consummated it and even to themselves just saw it as a particularly strong friendship, were therefore able to live a happy life.
Like, yeah; obviously there were tons of obstacles. Lots of nuns weren't there voluntarily but because their families foisted them off on the local abbey with a dowry, and there were women who wanted to be nuns whose families forbid it, and women who might've wanted to be nuns but didn't have any money (things like this vary a great deal between orders obviously). And we know of cases of passionate friendship between nuns where someone noticed and intervened and separated them (this happened to Hildegard of Bingen, for instance*). And some of them surely weren't chaste and got caught. And of course plenty of nuns were straight and/or ace and/or aro.
But it has to have happened, sometimes; that queer women were happy together. And as a gay Christian myself I can't help seeing them as family, in a way.
*'Hildegard wrote intense letters begging Richardis to return: “I loved the nobility of your conduct, your wisdom and your chastity, your soul and the whole of your life, so much that many said: What are you doing?”' From here
Nissan Pao Concept, 1987. The second of Nissan’s Pike car was presented at the 27th Tokyo Motor Show. The retro styling referenced small Italian estate cars of the 1950s. Like the Be-1 it was based on the first generation March/Mirca and had no Nissan badges. When it went on sale in 1989 it was made in greater numbers than the Be-1, but sales (for the Japanese market only) were still by lottery