{"id":295,"date":"2009-10-12T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org\/974983.html"},"modified":"2009-10-12T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:07:36","slug":"national-coming-out-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/national-coming-out-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Coming Out Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I have ever officially <q>come out<\/q> as bi. There ought to be some sort of ceremony or something, with respect to <a href=\"http:\/\/djm4.dreamwidth.org\/2769.html\">David&#8217;s eloquent opinions<\/a>. Instead it&#8217;s just been casually dropped into enough conversations that word got around and now everyone knows. To be honest, I feel like kind of a fraud even typing this. I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cisgender\">cisgendered<\/a>, I&#8217;m in a very happy and committed (albeit open) heterosexual relationship, both of which facts allow me to pass for normal to anyone who doesn&#8217;t want to scratch below the surface (and most people don&#8217;t). Therefore I have never faced the kind of bald prejudice that a lot of my gay, or bi-but-in-same-sex-relationship, or trans friends have. I am comfortable in my sexuality, and most people who I spend time with (including customers in the pub, to my somewhat-surprise) don&#8217;t seem bothered at all; or at least, if they are, they don&#8217;t show it in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>If only everyone had it as easy as I have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue to try to do my bit to make sure that one day, everyone will.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This blog is proudly sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewhickey.info\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/miss_s_b\/pic\/000t1628\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamwidth.org\/tools\/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&#038;ditemid=974983\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" alt=\"comment count unavailable\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"\/> comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I have ever officially come out as bi. There ought to be some sort of ceremony or something, with respect to David&#8217;s eloquent opinions. Instead it&#8217;s just been casually dropped into enough conversations that word got around and now everyon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self","category-sexual-perversions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}