“Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you”-P.C Cast
I don’t understand. How can I be like this? It’s not normal. Well, that’s what society thinks anyway. “Dyke” is what they called down the corridor as I walked in my boy’s polo. I remember my first real girl crush. Beautiful, baby-faced. Well, we were both six year old. From then on I began to question who I was, I didn’t hear the word “sexuality” until I went to high school nicknamed hell. I spent four long hiding my social identity due to the terror of not being accepted. I couldn’t handle it. Do you think it is easy putting on a mask every day? Well, let me tell you it made my life unbearable, sending me into a spinning spiral of deep depression spending most days alone. No one wants to sit in an obscurity room questioning their existence. I did. Confined in the prison of my four …show more content…
I still have distressing days were I feel abandoned and like I’m anathematised by some of my peers, but it has made me more determined. Being openly bisexual is difficult in a society that is only beginning to understand what it is like. As Emma Goldman says "The most violent element in society is ignorance." Although I still don’t fully feel able to talk to girls in a romantic way, I look forward to the future. Since that day, my dad found it hard to accept my sexuality but he is beginning to come round to it. I know this shouldn’t happen, as you should love your child no matter what gender they are attached to, but it’s a step to a bright and happy future.
“Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.” - Harvey Milk
Though coming out as an open Bisexual, it has inspired me not to hide away anymore. I now fight for LGBT rights in the community in which live. This helping me understand and met new people, because let’s face it a woman’s body is beautiful and you can’t blame me for being attracted to it.
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