![]() ![]() My impression that cuffing my sleeves might allow other people to recognize me as bisexual didn’t come from nowhere it was in large part informed by what I’d observed in bi people assigning themselves stereotypes online in games like the unofficially named Bisexual Check Bingo, with cards such as the one here. Why was that? It wasn’t as if the short crop of my hair or the cuff of the sleeves on my button-down shirts were what made me a part of the LGBTQ+ community, and in fact, that sort of blatant stereotyping - that gay people have to “look” a certain way - has more negative connotations for social progress than positive. ![]() But what I left unsaid was possibly an even stronger motivation: a hope that when people saw me across campus, a flicker of recognition would cross their faces, and they would notice that I was not straight. When asked about my motivations for such a drastic change, I would smile and give a canned response about wanting to try something different in college or remark idly about donating hair for the first time. Midway through my first semester in college, I went to the barber and had most of my hair chopped off my head.
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