For those of you/us who have "confusing" labels i.e. not the ones people typically know such as bi, straight or gay but rather confusing ones like kinsey 5: how did you come out? How did you explain your orientation in simple terms?
I'm not out to that many people. I'm simply out as not straight to some people. It would be way easier for me if I could just settle on one of those three labels.
I like not straight as a label, I feel like that can include so much! I agree with you that it would be easier, especially when I have to explain what exactly I 'am'...
I supposed technically I'm pansexual, since I don't give a shit about someone's gender in the "are they attractive" calculation, nor am I only attracted to people of binary gender. And to complicate matters even further, my sexual attraction to different genders and different degrees of masculinity/femininity seems vary depending on how my own gender identity shifts (I'm genderfluid). So I just go with bisexual as a label. It's hard enough for people to understand ("but you're dating another woman, so you're a lesbian now, right?") without bringing pansexuality or kinsey numbers into the equation.
