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different gender relationships

School's Out: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Social Commentary post by Sharday Mosurinjohn on February 23, 2012 - 11:29am; tagged activism, asexuality, autosexuality, bisexuality, different gender relationships, education, erasure, heteronormativity, pansexuality, polyamory, queer, the personal is political, trans, Two-Spirit.

I'm an affectionate person, almost everyone I've dated or been friends with commenting on that. But whenever I am out in public with my fiancée, I become self-consciously affectionate. Not because I'm concerned about what nasty thoughts people might think about seeing such queerness, but because of what they fail to think.

This post is about what I consider to be one way of being the change I want to see. I think of it as a small public education intervention that I do almost every day.

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