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thank you for your very well thought out comment. I think another factor was that we always assumed that the word "gay" and "lesbian" were still kryptonite and everyone was homophobic to their very DNA that no matter how much they accepted us, they would always give us our little magical narnia spaces where only gays and lebsians would go and we would ever have to protect these places because they were considered radioactive to everyone else. I dont think gays and lesbians from the past could even conceive of the hell of multiple different sexualities fighting over the word gay and lesbian, appropriating our flag...sexualities or anything of the sort. It wouldnt even occur within their minds that anyone would even want to associate with us because they never thought heterosexuals would fully see us as normal human beings. So when the stigma of being homosexual was slowly diminished, we didnt understand that the bisexuals who would just experiment with us suddenly wanted to appropriate "our things" and want their own agenda...which was "we're sorry we're tainted with the gay but we want to live openly as bisexuals in straight marriages but still be seen as normal". Which, i understand but it doesnt really seem like a real priority for gays and lesbians. Their entire movement seems to be "i want to be in a heterosexual marriage but for everyone to know i have a same sex attraction and want no stigma attached to this". Gays/Lesbians are "stuck" on homosexual and its their entire humanity at stake...and whats at stake for bisexuals seem to be indulging their same sex attraction every once in a while as i see it.