nyabn_webmaster
Aug 12, 2009, 11:59 PM
When I first ran for office, a group of my friends, mostly gay men, decided to sit down with me to determine “what Micah was going to be”, because he couldn't be bi.
They felt no one would ever accept a bisexual, so some said “say you're straight”, and others said “say you're gay”. Someone suggested that I should state to the Stonewall Democratic club that while I've had sex with men in the past, I just don't identify as a member of the GLBT community, which I took to mean that I was openly on the “down low”, which made no sense.
We finally decided honesty was the best policy,
read full article here:
http://bisocialnews.com/my-interview-with-new-yorks-openly-bisexual-assemblyman-micah-kellner/
They felt no one would ever accept a bisexual, so some said “say you're straight”, and others said “say you're gay”. Someone suggested that I should state to the Stonewall Democratic club that while I've had sex with men in the past, I just don't identify as a member of the GLBT community, which I took to mean that I was openly on the “down low”, which made no sense.
We finally decided honesty was the best policy,
read full article here:
http://bisocialnews.com/my-interview-with-new-yorks-openly-bisexual-assemblyman-micah-kellner/