You're Teaching My Child What? by Miriam Grossman

Author:Miriam Grossman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2010-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

Shades of Lavender

Kids learn from an early age about these discrete categories: gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual. But when they’re older, they’re informed these sexual orientations exist on a continuum.18 They’re not either/or. Heterosexuality lies at one end, gay or lesbian at the other, and in between lie a multitude of possibilities. Individuals use different labels—er, descriptions—of where they fall on this continuum. Ambisexual. Bi-lesbian. Bi-queer. Dyke. Fluid bisexual. Heterosexual with questions. Lesbian who has sex with men. Not straight. Pansexual. Polyfide. Polysexual. Queer. Unlabeled.19

“Wherever you are on that continuum,” teens learn on outproud. com, “you’ve got plenty of company....”20

“Some argue that there are as many sexual orientations as there are people,” teens learn on Columbia’s Alice, “everyone defining for themselves their own rules of attraction, fantasy, and relationships.”21

Gurl.com provides a visual of the spectrum of sexual orientation: twenty-three female silhouettes in shades from dark lavender, representing “totally gay,” to white, “totally straight.” Click on any of these figures to find quotes from girls and women ages fourteen to forty-one who placed themselves at that point.22A sampling:“I’m a turbo lesbian! I love women! I had my 1st lesbian experience when I was 11 and would never date a man.”

“ . . . I don’t believe in drawing lines. You’ve got to keep your mind open to possibilities . . . .You can find love in the strangest places!...I’m 100% open to suggestion.”

“Today I’m a light lavender. I was more purple in college . . . anything might happen.”

“I experience sexuality as a fluid thing... I appreciate people who keep things interestingly mixed up and cultivate the art of ambiguity.”

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