Fluid

when discussing sexuality, i prefer the word "preference" over "orientation". although the latter term is the one preferred by many in the gay-rights movement, i believe it implies a false sense of rigidity and permanence that only reinforces the "straight" world's delusional sense of itself as completely removed from the gay one. every survey of sexual practices since kinsey has found that the vast majority of people at some point in their lives experience sexual intimacy with someone of the same sex.* therefore, as freud so succinctly put it, we are all bisexual. the current binaristic understanding of sexuality (which has admittedly served the political needs of the gay community well) will ultimately stymie the very same movement. we will never have gay liberation until the dominant culture liberates its own sexuality.

*for more on this subject, see marjorie garber, vice versa.