I Swing Both Ways.

    I am a girl. And I've liked girls for as long as can remember. From the time I was four and got caught rubbing bellies with the little girl from upstairs until now. It has never been "just a phase." But no one in my family, and I mean no one, wants to acccept the fact that I like girls.

    Boys have been nothing but trouble for me. When I was little my step-brothers used to touch me inapproriately and I didn't know that it was wrong I just knew that I didn't like it. I figured, if that's what boys do with girls,, then I didn't want to like boys. But as I got older, I got wiser and realized that boys were always going to be my first love as long as girls were a close second.

    The issue of my bisexuality comes up more than ever now, whether it be directly towards me or just about the gay community in general. The pastor at my church strongly disapproves of gays and lesbians. He thinks, like all people that liking someone of the same sex is a sin. I have gotten into many arguements with people about my religious beliefs and how I live my life. As far as I'm concerned, they are not God and they don't have a heavan or a hell to send me to.

    Others believe that liking both boys and girls is nasty and that a person is more prone to STD's. Some people even think that bisexuals are selfish. BEing bisexual doesn't mean that you are nasty or selfish. It means that you are attracted to both boys and girls.  

    I truely wish that the people who are closest to me, the ones that I care about the most, would be more open and understanding about who I am. i don't ever want to be ashamed to say that I'm bisexual just as i don't want to be ashamed to say that I'm African-American or that I'm a girl. I don't ever plan on changing because I believe that being me is going to take me somewhere in this world.