I thought this was a nice story

[Country Guy]

The trials and tribulations....

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/07/coming_out_of_the_bisexual_closet/

[12voltyV2.0]

All the labels, all the judgements and such that we make about and put on others and ourselves. It is too bad its all so complicated and we could not all just "chill out" with such things and just roll with whatever comes in life. Obviously it is pretty idealistic and naive to think things will change anytime soon, but it is a goal worth working towards and besides---we can dream can't we??

[Realist]

Yep, for my own safety, there's no way I could have revealed my bisexuality, back in the '50s!

My family would have surely disowned me and I could have possibly be in physical danger, too!

Imagine my relief, when I arrived in Germany and no one thought ill of us "deviants"! That was the one safe place I've lived in my entire life!

[12voltyV2.0]

Yep, for my own safety, there's no way I could have revealed my bisexuality, back in the '50s!

My family would have surely disowned me and I could have possibly be in physical danger, too!

Imagine my relief, when I arrived in Germany and no one thought ill of us "deviants"! That was the one safe place I've lived in my entire life!

What is kind of "scary" is that we do have some people who currently hold elected office or are seeking it (or appointment to appellate courts)----that they want to "turn back the clock" when it comes to "acceptance" of non-heterosexuality and even going back to denying the rights of GLBT people, and even the most extreme--want to see a return to things like the mental health field reclassify "homosexuality" as a mental illness or defect and reimposing criminal sanctions up to and including the death penalty in the most extreme calls for such a turning back to a time before we began to think it wasn't such a bad thing or acceptable to be anything other than purely heterosexual.

[tenni]

I agree that this is a positive story. The author was less worried now than when she was younger. People that she is connected seem accepting about a fluid aspect of her sexuality. It would be nice if that was a norm.