Tag: phase
Gay couple photo themselves across three decades to prove it’s not ‘just a phase’
“It’s just a phase.”
The number of times that young – and not so young – LGBT people have heard that comment, and felt invalidated, like the identity that they had discovered and nurtured wasn’t worth a damn.
At best, you can dismiss the comment in the same way the other person dismissed your true self, but at worst, it is utterly destructive.
And the most difficult aspect of being on the receiving end of a throwaway comment like this is that...
Bi Visibility Day: “Being bisexual isn’t a phase, it’s a life long sexuality”
It’s Bi Visibility Day! And many people have asked me, what is that?
Well, it’s the day bisexual people get to celebrate how awesome they are, and draw attention to the issues they face. Issues like biphobes (or as I call them, penis whisperers) who think they know more about my sexual preferences than I do. People who think that at 25 years-old I’m so unobservant that I don’t know what turns me on.
I am an ordinary guy who happens to be bisexual....
