Okay, I’ve got coming out stories on LOGO running in the background while I work because there’s nothing better on and it is Coming Out Day after all. Anywho, so every time I turn around they keep saying “its not a choice… being gay/lesbian wasn’t a choice” … Why not? Isn’t it the most important choice? I know why they keep relying on that essentialist reasoning; so that no one can delegitimize their identity and mistakingly believe that its possible to make another choice or to change them. However, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a choice to begin with. Personally, I believe that many factors in my life lead to my being bisexual and I chose to acknowledge, accept, and embrace it as part of my identity.
Also, I’m getting annoyed at how little you see bisexuality mentioned on this channel. Its always about gays/lesbians and I know I’m not going to see an episode about a bisexual coming out to their family. Doesn’t that seem wrong to anyone else? Instead of bitching about the over-sexualization of female bi-curiosity in mainstream media, lets focus a second on how gay/lesbian (supposedly LBGTQ) media ignores bisexuality entirely. That is, until they need a punchline.
*switches to America’s Most Smartest Model*
… I think that says quite a lot about my opinion of LOGO
Finally found a bisexual who’s more militant than I am! Haha. I agree with your views about LOGO. It’s a great channel to have out there, but I’m tired of all these forums spouting LGBT inclusion when they’re really only about the L and the G. Hell, the T even gets more representation, they at least had Transgeneration. What does the B get? Tila Tequila. WOOOOOOW. Will our orientation ever cease to be the punchline?
I think that the “T” has an amazing power over the media at the moment and I hope that the more people actually speak out and have discussions (informed and otherwise) about bisexuality that we will someday cease to be the butt of everyone’s jokes that it will no longer be okay to discriminate against us… gee I guess I really am militant! :O Seriously though, I’m in a way both looking forward to and worried about the upcoming Chicago Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival. They have several titles that look defamatory of bisexuals even tho they claim to be LGBTQ (http://www.reelingfilmfestival.org/reeling2007/html/films.html) … I suppose I won’t know until I see them, but I anticipate it regrettably going the way of LOGO channel programming…