I am Adrienne, and that is my name.

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This is a long response so I chose to not do the note thing, hope you don’t mind!

The first person I came out to last year was the guy I was dating at the time (now my best friend) and we were texting about some book and after I replied I sent him another text saying “By the way, I’m attracted to girls LOL” and he said something along the lines of “oh hey that’s cool, girls are awesome *continues talking about book*” We talked more about it later but he was always really supportive(: and I think I texted my cousin something similar when I told her haha. I wasn’t planning on coming out to people at high school (because it’s high school, you know) but people in our drama department were talking about how bisexuality “wasn’t real” so I came out in a fit of rage lulz. I’ve told some other people throughout the year and the exchange was pretty casual. I’m not open to everyone yet, but I tell more people as I get more comfortable with it. I get kind of nervous coming out to people because I’m not sure if they’ll accept me, but I’m usually more wary of coming out to girls because I don’t want them to get all “UR ATTRACTED TO MY GENDER SO U MUST BE ATTRACTED TO ME AGH” which I’ve heard happens a lot with same sex attraction but that hasn’t happened to me yet, thankfully.

Despite that, coming out isn’t a really huge thing for me. I know it is for some people and I don’t mean to invalidate that, but I honestly don’t feel the need to “come out” because that makes me feel like I’m revealing myself to the general population as something abnormal. Being bisexual feels normal to me and I actually forget sometimes that a lot of people are only attracted to one gender.It’s a part of who I am and I’ll share it with whomever I choose. The idea of “being in the closet” kind of pressures and shames people who aren’t open about their sexuality 100% of the time in my opinion. I’m not open to my family, and I never will be for personal reasons I won’t discuss. It’s not because I’m ashamed of who I am, it’s to avoid unnecessary pain. Who I’m attracted to isn’t my parents business so I’m not bummed they don’t know. I’ll be open when I feel like it and I’ll choose to not tell people when I don’t. That being said, I understand how coming out for a lot of people is really hard and it takes a lot of courage and I respect that greatly. 

This is probably way longer and more information than you wanted BUT since you’ve taken interest I just felt like saying that I don’t believe in the gender binary but I identify as bisexual because I consider myself attracted to the masculine and the feminine so that’s my identity and beliefs yay sorry if this came off as a rant to you because it wasn’t it was just my thoughts

thanks for your question! xoxo

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The British Embassy in Washington is participating in the 2013 Capital Pride Festival today to support the UK’s LGBT policy and commitment to human rights.