I’m bisexual.
I believe I may have mentioned it once or twice in the past, but I just wanted to get it out there for anyone who wasn’t aware. Because it’s a big part of my identity, and I want you guys to be aware of it.
I don’t have a lot of dating experience with any gender, truth be told. But I’ve known I was attracted to women as well as men since I was about 16 (almost ten years now), and my feelings haven’t changed. I am not a raging sex addict, as the stereotypes of bisexual people sometimes go. It’s more that I happen to be attracted to a person based on their personality, rather than their gender.
I have friends who are gay, lesbian, asexual, transgender, genderqueer, androgynous, pansexual, and lots of other labels that mean things outside what’s considered normal. Some of them would surprise you. Some of them might not. But knowing the people I’ve known through the years has given me a better understanding of human beings, of how different and yet how alike we can be.
It’s a sad truth that anyone who lives their lives openly out is still living with a lot of prejudice, fear and lack of basic human rights. It’s another sad truth that children are killing themselves, or being killed, for the simple crime of being different. And that’s horrible.
I don’t know why this message is so hard to get across, but it’s a simple truth: We’re all people. Every person who lives and breathes and thinks on this earth is a person. We all deserve to be treated as such. We’re all human, and sometimes we’re having a bad day and maybe we don’t take another person’s feelings into consideration, but that doesn’t mean we should ever, ever stop trying to treat every person we meet with basic human decency.
It would be easy for me to live my life as a straight woman. I “pass” fairly easily. But that would not be living as the person I am. So I’m letting you know, if you weren’t aware. I’m bisexual. I love people of all kinds, all shapes and sizes and personalities. That’s who I am. And I don’t care what you think.
So goodnight, world.
And I love you. ❤
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