Why do we have labels? “He’s a father”, “She’s a hiker”, “They are a teacher”, “He’s gay”, “She’s straight”, “He’s bi”, etc. They really all only exist for one purpose. Society puts them on us for “relation”. So that we can say “Oh, I understand him because he has the same label as me. He’s […]
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For the last fifteen years, I’ve not questioned my sexual identity. I’m a bisexual male. I’m not bi-curious or straight. I’m most definitely bisexual and equally attracted to both men and women. At least, that’s what I’ve always thought. Recently, the confluence of a new friendship and the start of my writing for LGBTQ newspaper […]
I once read a poem called “The Measure of a Man” in a friends house, it read: Not – How did he die? But – How did he live? Not – What did he gain? But – What did he give? These are the things that measure the worth Of a man as a man, […]
