Show threadRat Can't Read (she/her)Jun 6, 2025
Right now, I can't bring myself to go back and reread some of my previous threads angsting about my coming out as #bisexual because I imagine that they're too cringe. At some point, I will probably be able to accept and reread them, but not right now. But so many of you read them! And so many of you offered #compassion, whether that was in commiserating about the #biphobia and #panphobia within so many #LGBTQ spaces or in offering a kind of gentle and generous acceptance of my messy and conflicted feelings and my #grief over who I could have been in a more accepting world. I am so thankful that Mastodon offered me a space to work through those feelings and connect with people who responded with thoughtfulness and patience and kindness. I don't know that there's any other online space where I could have found that kind of response. So, if you ever interacted with any of my posts about my #ComingOut as #bi later in life, thank you!
Susan Larson β™€οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸŒˆDec 9, 2024

#TrumpSupporters sent into #meltdown by #HHS' β€˜#woke’ #PansexualPrideDay #post.

The post attracted a number #hatefulcomments, with some describing it as β€œ#nonsense” or β€œ#joking” that #pansexuality meant being #attracted to #kitchen #pots.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sexuality #SexualOrientation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Panphobia #Homophobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/09/trump-us-government-department-of-health-and-human-services-pansexual/

Trump supporters sent into meltdown by US health department’s β€˜woke’ pansexual post

Trump's allies have declared so-called "sanity" will return to the US government in January, after one depart celebrated Pansexual Pride Day.

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Show threadSex Ed for Bi Guys Jan 18, 2024
@CatoTheCactus Finally, the Ochs definition of #bisexuality is actually the definition for being #polysexual. It's fine if this is many people's working definition of bisexuality, but it does raise the question, "why not use polysexual?" And while for some people it's just that the word doesn't click for them, there can sometimes be behind it hostility to words besides bisexual to describe experiences of multiple gender attraction. I'm looking at the part of the bi crowd that does #panphobia.
Book_Gnome (She/They)Aug 9, 2023
The amount of #panphobia / #biphobia on Al Gore's internet when all I want to do is celebrate & share the joy of #WayneBrady living his truth is...a lot.
Jack has moved to lgbt.io/@sodamnqueerJan 15, 2023

I wrote an entire mini thesis on the history and use of the word queer in college (at my school you had to write a 10-20 pg mini thesis for every class with a topic you picked that was related to the subject of the class and this was for an LGBTQIA+ history class). I spent hours every day for about 6 months extensively researching the history of the word, and its use in the US and around the world.

There are some nuanced parts of history of the word, but at the end of the day there is not any good faith argument for telling LGBTQIA+ people we cannot describe ourselves or our own communities as "queer".

Controversy over the reclaiming of the word (for individuals or the community as a whole) has historically and is currently almost always centered around the feelings of white cis gay men and lesbians who do not want to include trans people, polysexual people, ace people, and people of color (among other groups) from "their community". Do not let them get away with it.

If you don't want it used to describe you as an individual that is fine, but our choice to call ourselves queer deserves as much respect as your choice not to.

#queer #queerphobia #bigotry #transphobia #biphobia #panphobia #LGTQIA #trans #nonbinary #enby #pansexual #polysexual #queerstudies