Comment on why do some straight people deny their loved ones’ homosexuality? (keyword: SOME)
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Bi erasure comes in all flavours. Gay guys around me also often don’t believe guys can be really bi, just gay in denial, or closeted gays living a straight life. The B in LGBT+ might as well be the bigotry in the community for how prevalent it is.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Ironic because bi is the largest demographic but also the one that can blend in the easiest which hasn’t forced people to advocate for acceptance.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
And is also a spectrum. Most people would probably be bi, if social pressure didn’t exist. It’s honestly weird to think that anyone would be 100.00% gay or straight.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If you think about it enough you realize that the labels aren’t perfect and sexuality isn’t split into neat labellable categories
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
And on top of that, it’s malleable, changeable.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 week ago
100%? No. When you put people in situations where they’re entirely segregated by the sex they were assigned at birth, people tend to take same-sex partners even though they would not consider themselves to be gay or bisexual. On the other hand, my guess is that most people probably round up; e.g., if it’s very, very rare for them to be interested in someone that’s the same gender, they probably think of themselves as being straight.