The Bi Years

[cosmolinguist]

"It's a shame your t-shirt only says 'Lesbians and Gays,' " Andrew said.

I'm wearing my "Not Gay As In Happy Queer As In Fuck Your Borders" t-shirt, as has become customary on Pride days (Levenshulme Pride today).

The t-shirt was a fundraiser for Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants (which is what it actually says at the bottom of the shirt, where Andrew had read this in the first place).

I explained that it was harkening back to Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (and for the same reasons, recognizing their oppressors are the same and so it helps to stick together), which I don't think he'd known.

He seemed content with my explanation, but then added "They could've at least made the 'bi' in 'lesbians' big! LesBIans." I laughed.*

He thought a little more and said "Les Bi Ans," as if it were a French phrase (so it took me a while to clock that the noise he'd made would be spelled this way, because French phonetics makes no fucking sense to me). "That means 'The Bi Years,' " he told me.

"It'd be a great name for a biography," I said (and then yes, heard myself say "biography" and thought "Bi-ography" must already be taken).


* You could also write it "...support The migRANtS" to get the "trans" in there!

Comments

[gender_euphoric]

Those are some exceptionally nerdy queer puns!!! :D

[cosmolinguist]

Here's a picture, click to embiggen.

[softfruit]

Yeah, biography's taken. And biology, and... the movement's had forty years, all the good words are gone, most of them several times over. Amphi-Bi-Ans is probably the best one still on the imaginary list...

What's amphi mean? A quick google suggests it might be like Latin or somesuch for "both"... Both Bi Years. The year I was bisexual, and then, just when I thought I was cured, the year I was bisexual again, in short: 'bisexuality - there and back again'.

[diffrentcolours]

"Myg-rant" might be a good title for your bi-ography ;)

[cosmolinguist]

Ha I like that. :)