{"id":1764,"date":"2017-01-17T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T19:52:57","slug":"ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/ambiguity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life can get difficult at times when you try not to fit the box, and I&#8217;ve learned many things navigating the Kinsey scale.<\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dontworry.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1778 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dontworry.jpg\" alt=\"dontworry\" width=\"500\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dontworry.jpg 500w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dontworry-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--more--><\/p>What I found is that, while everyone can find his\/her community in San Francisco, both community are definitely not inclusive. While in 2015, the US celebrated the Obergefell v Hodges civil rights case, there is still a long way to go to attain proper acceptance of the other party in both communities.<\/p>In the gay community, bisexuals are looked with a very strange light. They are not <em>born this way<\/em>, and do not belong, because they &#8220;have to make up their mind.&#8221;<\/p>My first realization of this was a conversation with a friend a mine, who&#8217;s married, has a kid and a husband, but still attracted to women, and leads a bisexual group in Paris. The issue is that she doesn&#8217;t belong the lesbian community, that is she doesn&#8217;t want to live in a community that has its own codes and lifestyle.<\/p>A second realization was at the Frameline festival (2015), where I went to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketing.frameline.org\/festival\/film\/detail.aspx?id=3606&FID=52\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/ticketing.frameline.org\/festival\/film\/detail.aspx?id=3606&amp;FID=52', 'En la gama de los Grises']);\" >En la gama de los Grises<\/a>. It is a very beautiful movie about the inner conflicts of a bisexual who has to make choices: he either has to be gay in full, or come back to a straight life.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFBclxxiOHU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>It seems that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/you-cant-spell-invisibility-without-bi\/Content?oid=4955825\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/you-cant-spell-invisibility-without-bi\/Content?oid=4955825', 'you can&#8217;t spell invisibility without bi']);\" >you can&#8217;t spell invisibility without bi<\/a>&#8220;. There are so few examples and public figures you can build upon (maybe Care Delevigne or Charles Blow, maybe?) and the bi limbo leaves breathless.<\/p>A big question is how to you tell your friends, when you&#8217;ve been straight for the largest part of your life, opened your horizons, and have to explain this without them thinking that you&#8217;ve been closeted for all these years, because &#8212; you weren&#8217;t, only restricted to what the society deems acceptable (it hasn&#8217;t always been the case; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallimard.fr\/Catalogue\/GALLIMARD\/Livres-d-Art\/Le-sexe-et-l-effroi2\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gallimard.fr\/Catalogue\/GALLIMARD\/Livres-d-Art\/Le-sexe-et-l-effroi2', 'things were different before monotheism']);\" >things were different before monotheism<\/a>.)<\/p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life can get difficult at times when you try not to fit the box, and I&#8217;ve learned many things navigating the Kinsey scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-mood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}