Thank you. I love language, I love semantics, but there really is a lot of baggage that comes with the bisexual handle.

The first time I realized I was in for a world of shit with the whole bi thing was during a party with some high school friends. I was very nervous because the only "out" lesbians were there, and I didn't really have any queer friends. I wanted to be friends with them; they seemed cool. I had a girlfriend, but no one knew about us for obvious reasons.

A particularly observant, loud-mouthed asshole fuckface moron made a joke about my "dyke friend." He was referring to my girlfriend. I was crazy pissed - like so mad about it I came out then and there and told him about himself - and then I went outside.

The lesbian couple followed me outside.

"So you're gay?" they asked.

"No, I'm bi."

They exchanged a look. "Oh. You're just... experimenting."

"No, I like guys and girls."

"Bi people get all the advantages of being straight, and none of the problems of being gay."

Then they laughed (no seriously how did I not beat their fucking smug faces in) and went back inside. It was like gay Mean Girls. Did the lesbians just tell me I couldn't sit with them!?

I was stunned. I didn't know what to say, but in that instant my naivete about the LGBT "community" was burned away. Sexual orientation, gender, it doesn't matter - people can be assholes, and identifying as any particular thing does not mean they are exempt from dickheadedness. I'm glad I learned this important lesson as a youngster, because it's served me well. Not every gay person is a good person or an ally. There's good and bad in all.

Oh, and those lesbians broke up later that night, and the one is definitely married (to a man) with a kid now, so whatever.

I try to stay out of the terminology fights for the most part. I'll do anything to support the cause, but I don't want anything to do with the rhetoric.