So, I'm involved in a very minor way in local politics where I live, and as part of that there is a short biography of me which occasionally gets cut-and-pasted into articles we release about stuff. It includes the line "Cosmicspaceowl lives in [place] with her partner [his name]." Everyone else's biography says something like "x lives in y with his wife/her husband," no name.

I recently found out that the person who wrote it added in my partner's name because he didn't want someone socially conservative to see it and think I was gay and have that put them off supporting me.

I'm bi. I'm not out except to a few close friends because I'm in a permanent monogamous relationship with someone of the opposite sex and it feels both irrelevant and disrespectful of him, and also I'm a coward. But this really upset me. This group is on the socially progressive end of politics, and yet someone thought it was a good idea to hide even the perception of being LGBT.

I know I'm not being completely fair to the guy that did it here because as far as he knows I am straight, and I know he was thinking "why should Cosmicspaceowl experience discrimination for something that doesn't even apply to her" but I am still feeling a weird mixture of anger and disappointment and guilt over this because it is basically pandering to possible homophobia and I didn't make a big deal out of it because I didn't want to make a fuss. I got him to take out my partner's name but I didn't really explain why very well and I'm annoyed at myself as much as anything else.