A bunch of “gay feelings,” she said, started to pop up. Kirsch stayed away from the masterdoc until shortly after marrying a cisgender man in the middle of 2021. So, she avoided the masterdoc Kirsch had a sinking suspicion that if she read it, it would reveal that she was queer. The first time Sarah Kirsch heard about the “Lesbian Masterdoc,” a publicly shared document meant to help people figure out if they are a lesbian, she was deeply closeted and afraid of anything associated with queerness.
