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https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> I& #39;m bisexual. It& #39;s been a confusing journey for me to reach this point, but I& #39;d like to own that identity now. I feel capable of embracing it.
For most of my life, I didn& #39;t recognize my queerness as unique to society because I was raised in a queer household. We had to hide any indicator of queerness due to Don& #39;t Ask Don& #39;t Tell, but at home we& #39;d joke because the prevailing hetero-"norm" didn& #39;t seem normal to us at all.
As an adult, as I began to see that my feelings/actions were not the norm, I came out to a friend. She pointed out that the only person I had successfully hid it from was myself. "Straight girls don& #39;t get crushes on other girls." Wait, not even a little?
I embraced the term "queer", but had a harder time with "bisexual" because "pansexual" is also a valid identity and they two identities often get misinterpreted and even pitted against each other. It& #39;s hard to wade into the pool when you don& #39;t know the depth of it. I was scared.
The lack of clarity made me hesitate in putting words to my identity, but reading the Bisexual Manifesto helped me find a voice for it: "Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature... In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders."
