This is a good place for that reminder that the big lexicon of sexualities, romantic orientations and gender identities are something to help you figure out what your business is. Other people will sometimes have identities that do not appear to match their behavior, and that is fine.

This was the whole point of Russell T. Davies television series Bob & Rose (Bob is gay man who falls in love with Rose, a straight woman, and everybody freaks the fuck out. )

Or to put it another way, if a friend of yours is a lesbian but sometimes likes the d, or has a d or is enby, id est, not a woman, they are still a lesbian.

Most of the lesbian community is down with this, in my experience, but the lesbian community -- and the LGBT+ community in general -- has a long history of gatekeeping, especially of shutting out bi folk and trans folk. And we need peers, friends and allies on the same page. So here we are with the bus driver tapping the sign.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If a straight man sometimes like the d, are they still a straight? Obligatory Asking for a friend.

Regardless of the answer, I'm not going to police someone on their identity.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

If a guy likes the d but identifies as straight, then yes, he's straight.

If a guy likes the d (and less so the v) but also musicals and brunching and still identifies as straight, then he's straight.

At very least, the closet continues to be a necessity for some folk in intolerant circumstances.

Identity is something one works out for themselves. Heck the Kinsey scale implies almost everyone should be bi, (even if not very bi) and yet our booleanist society seems to want to categorize only Kinsey-0 as straight (with everyone else as Oh-So-Gay).