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Author Topic:   You're either straight, gay, or lying?
StrawberryPatchBug
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Message 34 of 158 (417747)
08-23-2007 11:55 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Taz
06-15-2007 1:04 PM


Ok I am going to chime in here as an actual bisexual.
I personally find it extreamly offensive when people start claiming that bisexuality is non-exsistant. We bisexuals find ourselves in a sort of no mans land between the gay and straight communities. Some gay orginazations include bisexuals, but on the most part both sides paint bisexuals as confused fence sitters. This has been coming up a lot recently as I had a gay friend who insisted that I needed to just "Make up my mind and pick a side" I was offended to no end both for the fact that this was a friend of mine who I thought understood what it was like to have his sexuality questioned and also someone who would have cared enough to try to understand an alternitive lifestyle (getting off topic). His argument was that he was "bisexual" in high school but grew out of it. This is something that I have run into a lot and it is simply a misrepresentation. There is a difference between bisexuality and bicuriousity. Many people are bicurious in their adolecence when they are discovering their sexuality. But when people claim to be bisexual during this time then discover they are not later in life they claim they have "grown out of it". This undermines those of us who are genuanly bisexual and let me tell you that I am not going to "grow out of it" and I know many others who feel very much the same way.
There is something called the Kinsey scale that puts forth pretty clearly that sexuality is not so black and white, it varies from person to person making bisexuality an absolutly legitimate sexuality.

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