#sapphic pride
I saw a picture of her today and was rammed, totally pummelled, by the full extent my gayness
Bisexual Women and Lesbians Always Perfect Together
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Image Description: Full-colour hand-drawn picture of two Edwardian Era ladies kissing.
The lady on the left who is light-skinned with bright red hair is attired in clothing in the Pink, Purple and Blue colours of the Bisexual Pride Flag. She has her puppy’s leash around her wrist as she grasps her sweetheart’s elbow and leans in for a sweet kiss.
The lady on the right is darker-skinned with curly black hair and is attired in clothing in the different shades of red’s, white, and pinks ( ranging from reddish-orange, orange to white to lavender red to dark magenta) of the Lesbian Pride Flag. She has put down her umbrella as she leans over to hug and kiss her sweetheart.
I want a girlfriend. I want a butch girlfriend. I want a butch girlfriend that I can hold hands with at the farmer’s market as we plan a date in which we feed each other these strawberries dipped in chocolate. I want a butch girlfriend who will help me pick out another shade of red lipstick at the store because she knows she can kiss it off of me when we get home. I want a butch girlfriend who will slowly walk her fingers up under my skirt as I unbutton her shirt. I want a butch girlfriend who will tell me my hair looks beautiful while thinking about dragging me to our bed by it later that night. I want a butch girlfriend. I want a girlfriend.
❝As bisexuals, we experience pressure from both sides to make up our minds, to make a final choice. If we don’t, we incur a collective contempt.
Bisexuals deal with homophobia, biphobia and even heterophobia. The desire to identify with a community often forces bisexuals to repress one side of themselves.
It is a key element in the overall strength and wisdom of the lesbian/gay community that it include and validate bisexual people, and the bisexual movement as an ally in fighting the common enemy, heterosexism.
It is clear that homophobia is at the root of biphobia. Bisexuals have no intention of undermining the gains made by lesbians and gay men in the struggle to be a free people. Coming out as a bisexual is not something that is done to acquire or flaunt heterosexual privilege.
I am bisexual because I am drawn to particular people regardless of gender. It doesn’t make me wishy-washy, confused, untrustworthy, or more sexually liberated. It makes me a bisexual.❞
— Lani Ka'ahumani. “The Bisexual Community: Are We Visible Yet?” Out & Outraged: Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at the U.S. Supreme Court, 13 Oct. 1987, pp. 47–48.
