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I wrote this article shortly after this year’s Pride festival. The memory and energy of that day was still strong and I was feeling encouraged and inspired and hopeful after the weekend was over.
There are so many of us is something I think to myself at Pride. And then I remember that the crowds at Pride are just a fraction of us. Afterall, there are countless others who aren’t quite ready to come to events like this.
There are many, many terms that someone can identify as, and I really like the word ‘queer’. It’s vague, it’s open to interpretation, and it’s inclusive. Queer isn’t limited to sexual identity and sexual preference, it can also include gender. I’m queer.
Essentially I think queer is for anyone who is not cisgender and/or straight.
Annnnd I think almost EVERYONE is queer, even if it’s just a teeny tiny bit. Hot take but I don’t think heterosexuality is the default sexual identity for humans. I think BOYS ONLY KISS GIRLS is mostly conditional behavior.
And before you spam the comments about your own straightness, please notice that I wrote qualifiers such as ALMOST and MOSTLY. If you are a man and have never even thought, even in passing, that another dude was attractive even for a second, then congratulations. You win the award for Straightest Man in the World.
The trophy is a beer can with a hammer glued to it.
I also think that at one point in almost (there’s that qualifying word again, boys) man’s life, they looked at a dress, a bra, a skirt, ANYTHING and wondered just for a second, what it would be like to wear it.
No? You’re reading a post on a t-girl’s website and the fleeting thought of you yourself wearing panties never once flickered on in your head? Well, here’s your award for the Cisgenderest Man in the World.
The trophy is a bronzed pair of Hanes boxer shorts.
My point is that I believe ALMOST all of us are queer, to some extent. Pride is for all of us, not just the people who are there. It’s for those who aren’t quite ready to acknowledge aspects of themselves. Pride is there waiting for them… just as it waited for me.
Love, Hannah
Hannah McKnight 
“I think almost EVERYONE is queer”.
I think so too, Hannah.
Some people are dead straight, but they’re the ones who don’t have hangups or frothing rages about other people’s queerness because they’re just calmly happy in how nature turned them out rather than fretting about not being seen to be straight.
Sue xx
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Hey Hannah
this is one of your best! eloquent, and funny too 🙂
best from Oakland,
bri tracy
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Bronze boxer shorts – ewwww! I’ll take the gold pantys please.
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Thoughtful commentary on self perception. Getting hit on by gays in my 20’s was a conflict that added to a fear of being perceived that way. In my 30’s I submitted to seduction a few times but preferred heterosexual relations. Later in life through the internet I resolved I was a crossdresser and perhaps bisexual. Now a old married man I am true to the wife, yet realize perhaps I am queer.
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Love this Hannah
One of the biggest liabilities in the world today is our inability to be vulnerable. We have much more in common than we would care to admit. To quote Justin Hayward, “If only you knew what’s inside of me now, you wouldn’t want to know me somehow”
Nadine
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I always liked the idea of the Kinsey scale and I think that most of us fall in the middle of somewhere between straight and gay. Call it queer or bi or whatever, its also something that we as guys are taught early on to suppress and hide that deep inside of us. Hopefully a lot of us realize that is not healthy behavior and it certainly explains a lot of the hatred and anger towards those that find themselves able to express their gender and sexuality how they’d like.
Also, CIS guys need to realize that “I’m 100% totally straight but I’d have sex with you” isn’t the flex or the compliment they seem to think it is. First, if you know I have boy parts in my panties and you’d have sex with me, you’re not 100% totally straight. And like the Seinfeld episode, there’s nothing wrong with that!
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