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iscxuals: “We’re too queer to he straight and too
straight to he queer. So we’re shunned hy both. And
that’s shameful, especially hy people who know what it
is to he shunned,” says C ilonn Scofield Williams, who
believes, as a whole, the queer community does its best
to he inclusive. “Where it breaks down,” he contends, “is with indn
viduals within the community.”
Williams says he’s neither homosexual nor cal, intellectual— to more than one gender. By
heterosexual; he’s just sexual.
identifying as hi, you affirm the complex spec
“Why should I need to define it any more trum of sexuality.”
than that.7" asks the bookseller and free-lance
Meg Daly, who identified as lesbian for six
writer, who occasionally contributes to Just Out. years before embracing her bisexuality, doesn’t
Williams has been in a committed relationship think she’d been hi all along. Daly, who writes
with his female partner for 16 years. Rut, he says, : regularly for Just Out, says: “Sexual orientation
“The dick is its own connoisseur, and how it I has a number of factors to it, including sexual
responds to stimuli is what makes me sexu attraction, of course. Rut it is also a political
al...not where I end up putting it.”
identity, a social identity and an intellectual
Scott Dillinger, a gay man who works at Ore framework through which one sees the world.”
gon Health & Science University as a social She adds that queers need to allow each other
worker and therapist, says, “I do not believe that the "flexibility to change, to explore, to discov
human sexuality is a locked feature, like eye er on our own.”
color or other physical traits.” Rather, he
Lesbian Caron Parker, a student at Portland
believes sexuality is one of the most fluid human State University, is less concerned with physiol
characteristics, "one that is continuously being ogy. She focuses on her deep-rooted tendencies
explored and developed as we age."
instead of a sexual structure that molds the
Ri woman Yasmine Branden, who works tor human condition. “All I know for sure,” says
a Portland utility company, is in a king-term Parker, "is that at age 6, I fell in love with Lind
relationship with a lesbian. .She says bisexuality say Wagner and was the Bionic Woman tor Hal
is “a capacity for attraction— emotional, physi- loween tor three years in a row."
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