It was a club on Nicholas street, across from the jail and downstairs. “I was 15 and a friend and I took my mother’s car and we drove to The Coral Reef. But I knew what I was going to do, and so I knew where to go. I’m from Smiths Falls, where I think we had one other lesbian in town, but I didn’t know her very well. “It was my first foray to a gay bar here in Ottawa. But I have a going out story - going out in big style. I started seeing women and sleeping with women when I was 14 years old, so I didn’t have much time to figure out anything I just dove right into it. “I don’t have a coming out story, because I was never in.
