About this deal
We did the usual things; making out in the gym, fucking backstage in the theater, and getting our jollies. I have no idea why he's the only guy I like, but the year we've been together has been probably the best year of my life. I do remember as a young teen watching a music video of a female singer and biting my lip or something, but I didn't realize at the time it was because I thought the girl was cute.
In this anthology, though, each story’s central characters are in the main very much rooted in their bisexual identities, or are getting there by the end of the story. Ignore the haters (and that includes anybody who gossips, is rude, or doesn’t respect you and your sexuality).Growing up in a Catholic school, living in the small city of Hull where very few people in my social circle were 'out' as gay, nevermind bisexual, it took me a while to realise it was okay to simply be attracted to both men and women.
I feel like being bi gives you the opportunity to get away from the idea that people’s value depends on their bodies and depends on how the opposite sex thinks they look. For some, you need to approach the subject carefully, for others it's simply a case of dropping feminine pronouns into conversation.Not a civil partnership - a marriage, including the right to raise children without being discriminated against. I am just growing into myself and recognizing the importance of unconditional love and healing from past wounds. Society shouldn't look down on it and it should be perfectly legal and governments are stupid for trying to stop something so perfect and natural.
No really, they think bisexuality is a myth and they think if I date a man, I become straight, and then if I date a woman I miraculously become gay again… rather than, you know, thinking I might just like men AND women?I just mention things about my past or present relationships, or talk about my life in a way which doesn’t disguise my sexuality, freely in conversation – just as I would if I was straight. When I told my friends I was bisexual, I remember pressing a tissue into the palm of my hand and by the time I'd rattled the words out, it was in shreds. The third time I told someone was a text, sent to a friend, on Christmas day, from the bathroom of my family home.
After kind of going through that and walking into this idea more that I’m potentially bisexual and that maybe it could be a thing that I just own that, but I wasn’t really ready to say that or to tell everybody that. And there was a an evening I was spending with my friend – a very close friend and already I got to know very well and trust him. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. My family is incredibly close and I found myself becoming distanced from them the further my relationship intensified. Being bisexual has always meant more to me than who I have sex with — it's intrinsic to my identity.
But by the time I was 21 I realised I was unhappy, that being in denial about my sexuality was affecting my relationships and that I couldn’t ignore it or make it go away. One day, my Mum phoned me and said I needed to come home and have a talk with her and my dad - I instantly knew. I’d always been friends with girls, but as a kid I never thought about girls in a romantic way… whereas I had ‘crushes’ on boys, who I obsessed over, and who I wanted to kiss and hold hands with and be with foreeeever. But what they don't take away is your self-knowledge and identity, and ultimately that is what strengthens and empowers you.