I don’t care if she’s straight or bisexual. If she can write a story about a gay man that is still interesting and relatable, that’s all that matters. Sometimes, it’s good to get a perspective from the outside. Maybe some imagination was used, but you need to have good imagination to be creative.

But I’m at a point now where I’m sceptical if someone told me he or she was bisexual. Bisexuals definitely exist, but there are also a lot of straight people who pretend to be bisexual thinking it makes them more attractive to the opposite sex or gives them oppression points. There are also a lot of gay people who think they are bisexual because they find out they are attracted to the same sex but cannot fathom why they wouldn’t be into the opposite sex. Again, bisexuals do exist, and I bet there are almost as many of them as there are gay people. But it seems too easy to call yourself bisexual these days.

At the same time, I’m not going to dismiss a person who says they are bi unless I know for sure that he or she is bullshitting, because we all have our own unique experiences. I’ve had some people flat out say "that I’m not gay" because I’m not effeminate and accuse me of trivialising the struggles of gay people. Eventually they realised I actually am gay, when I showed no interest in the girls at my school and never asked a girl out to prom. It was still frustrating for me. Remembering what that was like for me, I don’t dismiss people who come out as gay or bi.