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The struggles of a Bisexual

Veröffentlicht am 6, Okt., 2022 Aktualisiert am 6, Okt., 2022 Kultur

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The struggles of a Bisexual

Ines Camoes

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Ever since childhood, I’ve heard about "gays" and "straights".

Surrounded by images of the princess being rescued by the prince and men falling in love with women, I grew up with the idea of that being what was “normal” and “expected”. When the word “gay” or the less nice synonyms were whispered, almost as if they were wrong, it was easy to think it was indeed “not normal”. While I was not raised religious nor to be prejudiced, the society I grew up in was, and unfortunately still often is, quite homophobic.

I’ve always found girls cuter than boys. Even when I would go on walks with my mother, she would comment on handsome men, and I would mimic her by commenting on cute boys. But I never really understood why we were commenting on just the boys. Now and again, I remember commenting