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The best gifts can be designer, charitable, one-of-a-kind, homemade or luxurious, but are always thoughtful. Every year, loved ones gather to exchange tokens or stand in long post office lines to send warm wishes to distant relations. SheWired contributors come up with their wish list

In a climate in which high-profile celebrities including Cynthia Nixon and Wanda Sykes have talked openly about falling for women later in life, in which women often feel freer to explore various aspects of sexuality, some are finding that after years of marriage and / or dating men, that they are attracted to women, and often capable of falling in love with another woman. Editors of Dear John, I Love Jane, Candace Walsh and Laura Andre – a couple in life – inspired by Candace’s later in life lesbian experiences, sought to compile often humorous and heartrending stories of women who came to the realization they were attracted to women after many years as unfettered straight women.

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Kim Lee Brown. Kim and her partner Jazzymyne sailed from California to Mazatlan, Mexico with their cat, and they worked together on Two Fools and a Cat, a book about the journey.

Fans of The Real L Word have come to expect its cast members to deliver moments of rampant partying, unhinged lesbian drama that typically occurs in public and gratuitous on-air sex. While a handful of the TRLW gals did just that this season, Sajdah Golde was busy falling head over for a woman for the first time, and she did it with the cameras pointed squarely at her. A political organizer in charge of volunteer recruitment with Vote for Equality at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Sajdah is no stranger to putting herself out there in the world. She is, after all, in charge of teaching young people how to discuss LGBT issues -- notably same-sex marriage—with voters who aren’t necessarily allies, a job that takes conviction and courage in itself.