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You know those days when give yourself a fright? You look in the mirror and go, “Who the hell are you and what did you do with me?”
Today is one of those days for me. I woke up with runny nose and I’ve been sneezing more than your average Disney dwarf. If things continue like this, stock in tissue manufacturers will surely go up!
While I certainly look worse than I feel–OK, except for my raw nose–I have to admit that I’m in one of those moods in which I really don’t have any desire to mull over my bisexuality. I just want to curl up with a hot cup of tea, the novel I’m reading and the two-hundred count box of tissues I’m quite sure will be finished by morning. I quite frankly don’t want to think about anything else right now. Actually, I would prefer to give my brain a rest at the moment.
This is certainly not the worst I’ve ever felt by a long shot, but it does allow me to touch on the other moments when I’ve fretted about what to write and what I had to say to all of you. It’s actually in those moments when I wonder why I opted to become what can only be described as a professional bisexual because I don’t necessarily feel distinct from others.
Lest I be accused of being an ingrate and a whiner, let me state that I enjoy very much working with my colleagues and that I am thankful for having been brought on by our creative director. I also know full well that writing about life from a bisexual man’s perspective–plain and simple–is something that I had wanted to do for a long time.
Besides, most of us have to get down to work whether we are ill or not. Responsibilities of all sorts do not wait for us to be on our proverbial game. Head cold, headache or simple head trip, we have to get out there and do our work, completing what needs completing.
Today–as has been true for several other days since I began writing for you–I have nothing more profound to say to you than we bisexuals put our trousers on one leg at a time just like everyone else and we get late-winter colds just like everyone else. Today, I feel no particular specialness is being bi, which I actually see as a positive.
With my running and sneezing nose, I am well aware that in many respects I’m no different from anyone else. Perhaps even this small cold is a good thing because it finally made me tell you about those uneventful occasions when I am just being myself and my bisexuality fades into the background.
Naturally, I hope that those of you bisexuals reading this blog are proud to be bi. I also hope that you have moments–by all means without colds and flu–in which your bisexuality fades into the background and you can just be yourselves. As the quotation attributed to Sigmund Freud goes, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to warm my tea, find more tissues and get to my next project.
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Ever since I was laid off, I have spent most of my Saturdays with my friend Majed. Normally, this entails some sort of road trip and a great deal of musing on the nature of life. During our jaunt this past Saturday, I was telling him about how my late father was a guidance counselor and also the family cook. When I was a child, I used to do homework at the kitchen table while my father prepared dinner. I come from a family of four children. My two sisters shared one bedroom, my brother and I another. Since there was only one desk in each bedroom, someone had to use the kitchen table. Perhaps someone used the dining room table, although that is a bit hazy. The main point though is that no one was holed up in a bedroom with the door closed. And none of us children had our own bedroom. The house was small and we were always together in some way or another.
As th
e bromide goes-if I had a dime for every time someone said that I didn’t look Italian, I’d be a millionaire. Admittedly at 6’4” with blue eyes, less-than-olive skin and long, light brown hair, I am not what most people in the United States would imagine an Italian American looks like. However, visit my mother’s hometown of Isola del Liri in Italy’s Lazio Region and you will see plenty of people with my features.
So what does this have to do with being bisexual? Well every year in October when Italian American History Month rolls around, I fulminate about how much I want nothing to do with Columbus, how little anyone knows about Sacco and Vanzetti, and how I wish I had other Italian American bisexuals, gay men and lesbians to hang around with. It’s as if I spend the month in a protracted and wide-ranging intellectual version of hide-and-go-seek. Come out, come out wherever you are. Please.
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Over the past week, I have had the occasion to reconnect with my on-again, off-again partner Amy. We have known each other for three years now and in general have what my friend Mike calls a special mojo. In most cases, we are pretty good at reading each other. At one point, I had joked that we were going to start finishing each other’s sentences and then move on to telepathy.
Get into the minds of our columnist, Peter as he shares his thoughts regarding this national day.
The fight for equality exists on many fronts. In addition to the struggles of all sexual minorities, the struggle certainly continues for racial, gender, environmental and economic justice, among others. Since we are at Labor Day in the United States and I come from a very strong union background, I naturally spent a great deal of time of late thinking about being bisexual in the workplace and the connection between being bi and fight for workers’ rights.