From: gromm Date: June 12th, 2011 07:10 am (UTC) (Link)



Once you become political like this, you see every mention of what you become political about as a slight against everything you stand for, and then come out with both guns blazing.



Dan Savage isn't biphobic. He may have said that bisexuality doesn't exist for a lot of people, but when people ask him



And that's a *very* far cry from the downright hatred that comes out of the gay political community, which is that we're *all* traitors or cowards, and that we should all just join their damn army already (as if somehow we haven't).



Dan Savage also is very strongly of the mind that bisexuals should be out to everyone, even - or especially! - when they've settled down (like he has) and left the fire-breathing gay political community behind (like he has, except for his job), the way it usually happens when you have kids and have no time for fire-breathing politics. Being out is in itself a political statement, and one that reduces the invisibility that we bi's so frequently complain about. This is the problem with "becoming political".Once you become political like this, you see every mention of what you become political about as a slight against everything you stand for, and then come out with both guns blazing.Dan Savage isn't biphobic. He may have said that bisexuality doesn't exist, but when people ask him directly if he thinks it exists, he will answer you directly that he thinks it does. And then he will qualify that with the *fact* that it is often a temporary state, because a lot of gays use the *label* as a transitional label, including but not limited to himself.And that's a *very* far cry from the downright hatred that comes out of the gay political community, which is that we're *all* traitors or cowards, and that we should all just join their damn army already (as if somehow we haven't).Dan Savage also is very strongly of the mind that bisexuals should be out to everyone, even - or especially! - when they've settled down (like he has) and left the fire-breathing gay political community behind (like he has, except for his job), the way it usually happens when you have kids and have no time for fire-breathing politics. Being out is in itself a political statement, and one that reduces the invisibility that we bi's so frequently complain about.