Entry tags:
outness
I think it's safe to assume that y'all know I'm queer, right? Happy Coming Out Day.
I've been thinking about outness in general, though, and the weird disparity between my level of outness in life vs. say, work. Even in my fairly liberal-minded company, the possibility that a person might be attracted to/date others of multiple genders doesn't occur to a lot of my colleagues. They prefer to assume that my date is my "life partner" or simply that I date boys.
Part of it is the subtlety with which people inject conversation about their dating habits - I mean, we're working, so we're likely to make assumptions rather than probe or divulge. But I wonder how much of it is about the relative lack of PR by the relative lack of community of people who are just plain old queer. Not straight. Not gay. Not lesbian. Et cetera. It seems that lots of people, in the face of subtle, don't see a multiple-gendered sexuality as an option.
Also, Al Gore co-won the Nobel! Cool. Thanks for the drowning-polar-bear nightmares.
I've been thinking about outness in general, though, and the weird disparity between my level of outness in life vs. say, work. Even in my fairly liberal-minded company, the possibility that a person might be attracted to/date others of multiple genders doesn't occur to a lot of my colleagues. They prefer to assume that my date is my "life partner" or simply that I date boys.
Part of it is the subtlety with which people inject conversation about their dating habits - I mean, we're working, so we're likely to make assumptions rather than probe or divulge. But I wonder how much of it is about the relative lack of PR by the relative lack of community of people who are just plain old queer. Not straight. Not gay. Not lesbian. Et cetera. It seems that lots of people, in the face of subtle, don't see a multiple-gendered sexuality as an option.
Also, Al Gore co-won the Nobel! Cool. Thanks for the drowning-polar-bear nightmares.