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- From: adkisson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rob Adkisson)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: being out...
- Message-ID: <83732@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 07:13:02 GMT
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- Reply-To: adkisson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rob Adkisson)
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- Originator: adkisson@mickey.cc.utexas.edu
-
- I'm looking for some net wisdom here...
-
- I'm sort of in a dilemma here... I just started grad school in the fall, and
- had a major change of environment from my undergraduate experience. At my
- undergrad. college, I was out to pretty much everyone who cared to know, and
- to plenty who didn't want to. I was going to wait and test the waters here
- to see how accepting the people were. Well, they seem to be ok, but I've
- lost my nerve now...I don't know what happened...I'm not trying to be
- closeted, I talk frankly about my opinions when motss relationships come up
- in conversation. But, I keep my sexual remarks about men to myself.
-
- It's really frustrating to be closeted, but it takes so much work to be the
- token bi. I just don't have the energy to be constantly explaining to
- these people with binary conceptions of sexuality, what being bi means.
- I feel guilty though, that if I don't do something to raise the issues,
- I'm only hurting myself in the long run....
-
- Anybody out there have similar experiences? Comments...
-
- This is like coming out for the first time all over again! ARGH!!!!
-
- *HUGS* to all
-
- -rob
- --
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- rob adkisson ____ A young flirt of Ceylon
- \bi/ Who led the boys on,
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- U. of Texas, Austin Succumbed to a swan -- Ogden Nash
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