ok 2 times now i have been told i was either confused or I needed to make up my mind by different people on here.

May I just say that I am not confused and this is who I am.

I am not going to assume that the entire population on here feels that way about being bi but just a few on here that seem to be so concerned about being accepted as gay but absolutely hypocritical applying that acceptance to being bi.

Thank you for allowing me to say my peace.

Josh

There is only confusion if it confuses you, but you sound pretty sure of yourself. One of my buddies from the WoR knew he was bi, and that worked for him and his wife. They were both completely cool with "It". Cuz there is no "It" if it's not an issue.

For some of us, it was a struggle to figure out if that's how we truly were/ felt/ are? For me , it was thinking i was bi when was truly gay. So no matter what your sexual inclination and as long as there is no disconnect between what's in your head and where you are in your life , then its all good.

Oh course there is bi, generally there is a great pull one side or the other but it is clear we cant generalize for everyone.

If you are comfortable and accepting of both spirits, then others will be too. If not - F'em, or ironically probably not. Some guys struggle with accepting the not so str8 part and that's where the issues can lie.

the best answer i heard was 99.9% of people are straight, gay or bi, the others just not interested. One study said that shown porn, most gay men are only aroused by men, str8 men by women and the bi group showed 3/4 had the same arousal pattern as gay man and the rest like heteros. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

It's just about all of us accepting whatever is in our heart and head and going with it. Friendship, compassion and love are all way more important than labels anyway.

Thanks for unconfounding the dichotomy

Sometimes the glass is truly both half full AND half empty.

I'm married to a woman, monogamous, and plan to stay that way for the rest of my life.

But I identify as "bi."

If that confuses other people, that's not my problem.

This frustrates me, the lgbt community seems to sort of discard bisexuality by calling them curious or confused. I've felt that pressure to make up my mind as well, but the fact is I am bisexual, I am attracted to men and women sexually. The only thing I'm confused about is how I'm going to have a monogamous relationship, when I'm attracted to two sexes.

Being bisexual in my opinion is harder than being gay or lesbian. There's nothing to combat religion with, because now on their terms I must choose. And in societies terms there's a stigma that we're either doing it for attention, we're just sluts and will fuck anything, we're confused, or we're curious. I'm actually more afraid to say I'm bisexual than to say I'm gay, so I just say I'm gay instead. I could go on and on, but I'd need more info to back up my points, I don't wanna miscommunicate anything.

I look at sexuality it is what it is, same as peoples dominant hand ie: right handed, left handed, ambidextrous (both handed equally), ambidextrous predominantly right handed, ambidextrous predominantly left handed. Myself am right handed yet there are a limited things I do left handed but not enough to call myself ambidextrous.
So I say why does it have to be such a big thing to identify as one brand of handiness or sexuality.

I am gay but growing up in the 50’s the pressure was to get married so I dated girls and I eventually married intending to be faithful, that is to not have sex outside the marriage with men or woman. She had a relationship with a student and we were going to separate the affair ended. We stayed together another 12 years till I became aware that she was becoming involved with another student so I left.
Since then I identify as gay. All my training to act straight has impacted on my persona and unless I tell people I am gay they assume I am hetro but being gay is only a minor part of who I am.

Dusty

Bisexuality,
Homosexuality,
Heterosexuality,
Can we not agree that surely a man can attest to his own preference.
At Long Last can we not see that each of us must walk his own path?

There are differences, sure. Many of us are driven to extremes of emotion by sexual activities...would you deny those persons the right to say and do as they please?

If a man claims heterosexual membership and yet seeks furtive gay encounters and neglects all sexual contact with women isn't it possible that he is in reality straight and yet finds incest or CSA makes him so uncomfortable with female intimacy that he abstains from all contact and just seeks release from sympathetic gay confidants?

Many are the examples we could make, and without telepathy still not know a man's mind lest he share of himself with us.

Knowing this....Living this....experiencing this....can we not then allow a man, any man, to self identify?

I am gay. No one else need participate in my statement. It is mine and mine alone to affirm my own sexuality and go thou...do thou likewise.

Just my thoughts...G

I can relate to a lot of what others have posted in this thread. The information I have looked at (covered in "The Bisexual Option" by Fritz Klein) discusses that there are a lot of guys out there who have the experience of being sexually and/or romantically attracted to both men and women. Also, it is not uncommon for there to be a great deal of variety in how this shows up over time. Some guys will be more attracted to other males predominantly or even almost exclusively for a period of time, than to females, and back and forth. There can be periods of time when they are equally or somewhat equally attracted romantically and or sexually to both males and females at the same time. For me personally, these patterns have all played out plus more. It certainly has made the whole area around looking at what possibilities there are for a monogomous (or some appproximation) relationship very challenging. In some of my more recent relationships that have approached or reached the romantic or sexual level, I have tried to share my bisexuality with that person since I want the person to know that it is something they will have to accept about me if we are going to look at being in a relationship together.

Guys,

Thanks for your input on here I really appreciate the support, when I first wrote this - I was not as familiar with the hearts of the guys here as I am now. I am now seeing and have learned that the few who would say the things to me that were said are indeed in the minority.

Appreciate it
Josh

I think, too, Josh the reason you may have encountered insensitive remarks - I'm sorry you had to hear them here, of all places - has to do with reactions of gay people to history.

Waaaay back in the 70s, for example, the "bi" label was even used by Elton John and other entertainment figures to describe themselves. At the time, it was a radical but "safe" statement. Given his religious background, however, I'm a little suspicious of Ted Haggard's use of it. He's all about saving his own @$$.

Very often the most rabid anti-LGBT megaphones are closeted political, religious and other public figures who are struggling to repress or hide their own sexuality by lashing out in the angriest ways imaginable, invoking morals, Christianity, public safety, or whatever advances their little cause (and gives 'em a good bump in the polls). Then they get caught in an airport restroom, a rent boy toting his luggage, etc.

So, yeah, in that environment, the presumption of "guilt" is probably inevitable. Probably says more about them than you. Personally, I think a little "live and let live" would be good advice all the way around. Eventually it will calm down...and this thread is a good example of it.


One of my best friends identifies as bi. And I have to admit - perhaps given my own screaming queerness - I'd sometimes thot, "Aw, c'mon. Get off the fence." Frankly, our friendship is more important than labels. I DO have fun, tho, when he talks about an ex-girlfriend and I get to whine, "Aw, shit. We gonna talk about pussy and tits AGAIN? Ewwwww...." Hell, I can't even retaliate by describing MY old sexual exploits.

Glad you posted.

Lancer,

Thanks for your response, while I appreciate the history involved in the gay community I don't see the roots of a bi person's history as one of that where people tried to hide their being gay or cover their ass by saying bi, to me bi is bi.

I just want to further clarify that the live and let live philosophy is something that I wish we all could embrace, quite honestly and this may be insulting to some but wrapping your entire identity into a sexual preference is limiting the definition of yourself - I believe that men and women are so much more than just a sexual preference, I don't believe that anyone is only gay or only bi or only straight but they are so much more it would be if you only defined yourself as being a parent, or only defined yourself as your own occupation, being any of these categories is one aspect of a life that has been given to us to live among all of the others who are living - if we could embrace each other - without focusing on cataloging a person into a group the amount of individualism would be celebrated and the definitions that we so quickly utilize for each person would be given less preference to the group and we would be looking at each individual as an individual - the word normal would be antiquated and shelved and perhaps one group or another group would not tell one individual how to live but celebrate that they do LIVE = and each person has a contribution to the whole.

I titled this thread please notice the title of this because I would like everyone to realize in the LGBT community that their are 4 letters there - I do not believe that 1 letter or one word can describe the vastness of an individual and in some cases it doesn't even begin to capture the vastness of the definition of human sexuality.

Josh