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- From: pclary@carrot.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: being out...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.033922.12156@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:39:22 GMT
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- Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - aka Barnum & Bailey
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- adkisson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rob Adkisson) wrote...
- >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....
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- Be out. Especially if you're even remotely comfortable with it.
- Remember you don't have to educate anybody. You don't have to explain.
- Wearing a glb symbol (or something with glb wording on it) or having pictures
- of an SO on the wall, takes no explanation. You sexuality simply is,
- you don't have to justify it or explain it to anyone. If someone asks you
- something sexuality related, you can give a one or two line answer.
- If they want to know more, but you don't have the energy, direct them to
- bi resources such as books, magazines, or organizations. Don't sacrific
- your visibility, just because you don't have the energy to give an hour
- lecture. The main thing people need to know is that there are queers around
- them. There are still some people in the world who claim to have
- never met a glb person, we need to show them they're wrong.
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- Ellen
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