So today I was browsing on Facebook and I saw one of the adverts that always pops up on the side. It was a group that said Lesbian Pride: Bisexuals Welcomed! Join if you're bi and have lesbian pride.
First of all, I'd like to start off by saying thank you to this group. Too often, Bisexuals are prejudiced against by the one community we are a part of; the LGBT community. Too many people who have experienced prejudice forget that the B exists. They say we are closeted homosexuals too scared to come out, that we are promiscuous, that we are lying. So thank you to this group for saying we are welcome.
However, this group have to stop and think a moment. Why would a Bisexual have Lesbian pride? If they are proud of who they are (as I am myself) surely they would have Bisexual pride? Another example, perhaps, of erasing the B from LGBT. As I am a woman who is attracted to women, some people have asked "are you a lesbian?" The answer is no. Some accept this and some are confused by it. "Yes, but don't you fancy women?" The answer is yes. But that doesn't make me a lesbian. And being attracted to men doesn't make me straight.
So Lesbians; have lesbian pride. More power to you.
Bisexuals; have Bisexual pride because too often we are the only ones who remember we exist.
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