Mmm this one’s a weird one.
I wrote about it a couple of years ago and honestly most of what I wrote about were feelings of community within the QUILTBAG. I’m not sure I had experiences as a child that really presaged my bisexuality. I’ve always enjoyed the company of men and women and I suppose you could say that was bisexuality.
Realistically though I don’t recall anything before I was a teenager that would indicate I was into anyone other than boys.
If you stretch it I guess my enjoyment of single sex spaces like Brownies and Girl Guides – but there are plenty of straight women who appreciate single sex places too. I have always felt at home with drag artists, with the glittering brightly coloured end of the QUILTBAG – it doesn’t exactly conform to my lesbian stereotypes of community but the end of the gay family that I’ve always ended up at usually includes more gay men than not.
And now I’m thinking about the parrot in the Navigation again.
I don’t know if I was particularly in the closet as a kid but I did know that I wanted to keep all of those types of emotions very very close to my chest. So I did.
But I remember watching Annie Lennox on Saturday night TV and liking that she was surrounded by a group of men in dresses. It spoke to some part of me though I’m not sure I have ever known exactly what it was saying.