And an infinite number of people came up to me and said, “Hey, we feel the same”. After that on social media and of course with my book about bisexuality. I came out in my second book when I was 30. What has changed as a result of the outing? You have nevertheless decided to be open about your bisexuality. Being straight is often safe, so many people prefer to stick with it rather than identify as bisexual.
But: There are many people who have had something with the same sex before, but still do not identify as bisexual. You already support the thesis that a lot of people have bisexual tendencies… Either because their own image of the ideal world begins to falter, or because they may have bisexual tendencies that they don’t want to deal with. I think that hostilities arise above all when people feel attacked by a form of love that is foreign to them. Because homosexual and bisexual people often have children and can start a family just as well as heterosexual people.Īnd that’s enough reason for hostilities? This is of course a very unromantic picture of relationships. Even in regions in which the family is the most important asset – very important – people only want to see one constellation: man, woman and child(ren). In any case, there are cultural and religious connections with homophobic tendencies. Why are gay, lesbian, transsexual or bisexual people such an enemy for some? Unfortunately, the labels sometimes ensure that queer people become victims of hostilities or even acts of violence. And that unfortunately makes labels very important for us right now. That’s why we desperately need a word for how we love. Couldn’t we just love who we want instead, without always having to explicitly address it?Īs long as it is not normal for people to be able to love and live freely, we still have to fight for it. We now put a label on everything, including our sexuality. To me, bisexuality is sexual and/or romantic attraction to multiple genders. We think: we know what gay and lesbian is, so automatically we also know what bisexual is. Therefore, when in doubt, one does not see it as one’s own sexual orientation, but as something that moves somewhere between heterosexual and homosexual. We are missing from the visible queer world, although we are actually the largest sexual minority.įor many, bisexuality often feels like it’s half-gay or half-lesbian. And bisexual people notice that, of course. Unfortunately, that often doesn’t happen. If we’re going to use the rainbow, then we should talk about every single color of the rainbow – and that includes bisexuality. We definitely need to talk more about bisexuality. And how can we change that and create more visibility for bisexuality?
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