James Finn
Sep 30, 2024

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I think we would at the very least, in your scenario, discover that bisexual people are the largest group of people under the LGBTQ umbrella.

I also think that shame is what causes a lot of conservative people to be so anti-gay. Only after I started realizing, several years ago, how prevalent bisexuality is did this occur to me.

I'm one of those rare birds (and I think I am actually rare) who has little to no potential for bisexuality. So I assumed (as many people tend to do) that others must be like me.

That hindered me from understanding that when some anti-gay people talked about folks choosing to be gay, that they might be expressing bisexual potential within themselves — colored by shame.

That puts a very different spin on things from presuming that sexual orientation is and must be highly polarized.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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