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IS MY GIRLIEND GAY?
Beg at school, where sual homophobic jokg was monplace, I was worried about the wir reactn - particularly as someone not seen as particularly 'mascule' the first place. She’d never ma any homophobic or biphobic ments that ma me thk she wouldn’t take well, but nohels I obvly didn’t want to risk . Neher gay nor straight, you n feel as if you're stuck the middle.
People like bari, and will often prefer to allote people to box labeled ‘gay’ and ‘straight’, wh no ncern for those who lie outsi. You don’t need me to tell you that some people still thk beg bisexual is a ver for beg "properly gay", or a label that people e to "sound ol". Biphobia and homophobia are still wispread, and for this reason, men straight-passg relatnships might ci to stay closeted, even to their partners.
“As well as experiencg the same challeng that lbian and gay people face, like bullyg and discrimatn, bi people’s inti are often erased, ignored or stereotyped, which n make harr for them to be open about their sexualy, ” says Jeff Ingold, Head of Media at Stonewall. Bi men are equently seen or picted as gog through a ‘phase’ on the way to g out as gay.