facts-about-bisexuality:

Fact: Some bisexual people identify with gayness. Just as “gay” has been used as an umbrella term to refer to gay marriage, gay rights, and gay liberation, “gay” can also be used as an umbrella term that includes bisexual and other mga people such as pansexuals and polysexuals.

lexas-clarke:

being interested in girls romantically but also being really close to your girl friends can sometimes make you so anxious because you appreciate their friendship a lot and pretty much do everything friends do like have them lay their head on your shoulder and give them hugs but you constantly feel like if you ever told them that you like girls, they’d stop acting that way and probably question your whole friendship and that shit is scary. yes, you’re interested in girls but that doesn’t mean you’re incapable of appreciating them for what they really are, good friends that you’re happy to have in your life

jaxxgarcia:

Yo also, idk, I’ve never seen this said around here, but if you’ve associated as gay your whole life and realize you might actually be bisexual/pansexual later on that’s totally okay! Sexuality is fluid and sometimes it changes. You’re not a traitor to your sexuality or to the lgbt community. You’re still very much a part of it.

darth-nox-ex-machina:

I’m so pissed atm.

We are studying Human Sexuality in class (STD prevention, hetero sex, etc)

We obviously get into a conversation about gays and how that happens.

This teacher says, “I believe we have genes that we can just turn off and on, like how our hair colour changes as we get older.”

I almost lost my shit.

He’s claiming that gay people can turn off their attraction to the opposite sex and back on due to their genes.

Are you fucking kidding me?

I’m gay, not because it’s cool to be, not because I’ve flipped off my genes coded for male attraction, not because it’s safe to be. It’s who I am, who I’ve always been. Do you think in a perfect world I’d want to be straight? Hell no. Boobs are great. But I don’t flip my gay genes on to admire some breasts.

Even if this theory by a 9th grade biology teacher held the smallest bit of truth– Explain Bi, Pan, and polysexualities. Are their genes flipped on for their specific preferences?

How about the Asexuality/Aromantic spectrums, do they have their genes flipped off, or halfway off?

GENES ARE NOT FUCKING LIGHT SWITCHES.

NEITHER ARE SEXUALITIES.

(this may be the least factual argument ever, I’m not a scientist but this truly pissed me off so fucking much.)

omg. I hope you don’t mind me adding on your post but the fact that our hair changes color as we grow older has *nothing* to do with willingly flipping genes on and off like. wow. Genes do not work that way omg. Maybe they tried to explain their point of view in a simple way and miserably failed but the thing is, they’re a teacher, their job is not to give their (heteronormative) opinion but to teach *facts* to their students.