A Rant About Sexuality

Okay, bear with me here, because this is my exceptionally displeased rant about sexuality, and why I hate the world right now.
 
It's Gay Pride Week in my city this week (May 15th-24th). Now, what you have to understand is, while I'm engaged to a man, I am bisexual. So, Pride is important to me. And I know we'd all like to think that, as a society, we're open-minded, accepting, etc etc... but let me tell you, we have a long way to go... as I've had cause to realise...

 

When did it become necessary for me to "prove" my sexuality? I wore a top today, as did several of my friends, with various Pride statements: "Closets are for clothes", "straight but not narrow", "I kiss girls (and boys too)"... you get the idea. And around campus, people start telling me to "prove" that I'm bisexual.

 

What??

 

When did that happen? When Katy Perry turned bisexuality into an art form?? When?! Does anyone walk up to straight couples on the street, and demand that they "prove" that they're straight? When did society get so damn rude?? When did this become acceptable behaviour?? And why am I the only one talking about it?

 

I'll probably write more about this later... right now, I'm too busy fuming.

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  • Writing0Freedom
    June 26
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    Be like- okay, when you prove to me your straight?
    People are just plain stupid- its sad. We had prop 8 in Cali a while back- my school was crazy from it- I'm super super no on 8- and I have a lot of friends who are yes- because Christianity's influence on Latina culture unfortunately sometimes puts a big big stigma on being anything that's not straight- and its really really sad.

  • almostlover3
    June 12
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    people are just assholes and they are just ignorant. i hate the people that say being gay or bi is just a phase and people choose to be that way...fuck people cant help who they fall in love with. me personally i think everyone is bi b/c u never know who u may fall in love with. sorry i had to get that out. but i understand how u feel.


  • Kevan gold member
    May 26
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    But it's only really straight people that ask you to prove it right?

    I understand your points - I just think it's hard for straight people to wrap their minds around the concept of liking the same gender... especially if they've never known someone like that in their life.

    So either those people that asked you to prove it were confused, or they were pigs

    Kevan.

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