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| January 6, 2012 at 10:47 pm #18829 | |
 Jamie Boden | I’m bringing it back. I dunno if anyone remembers the QUILTBAGPIPE acronym, I’m still trying to make it a thing. I identify as Queer, I like girls and the world around me sees me as female. What do you identify as? |
| January 7, 2012 at 2:46 pm #20139 | |
 Emily | You know, I have the hardest time trying to label what I am. For the longest time, I was so incredibly confused about my sexuality, I just threw labels out the window. One day, I might just like guys, the next might be girls, then it might be everything in between. |
| January 7, 2012 at 7:54 pm #20644 | |
 Alix @liesforneweyes | I’m not completely sure about my sexualilty. I’ve been into guys for as long as i can remember, but i think i might also be attracted to girls. I don’t want to date them though :s Even if I’m stright i spend a lot of time at college in our Gay-straight alliance coz a lot of my friends are gay or bi.
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| January 7, 2012 at 11:37 pm #21343 | |
| Jamie Boden | @cheetos it was an acronym on yourpants before it got hacked, kind of an awesome way to say lgbt. It stands for: |
| January 8, 2012 at 3:04 am #21738 | |
| Emily | I love QUILTBAGPIPE. It’s so fun to say. I don’t know about anyone else, but I felt a lot more comfortable with my sexuality when I found out John and Hank don’t mind it at all in their videos. I felt like I could really be me in Nerdfighteria, as well. |
| January 8, 2012 at 6:37 am #22050 | |
 Jake Gentry | So I’m almost 100% positive I’m straight, but I wouldn’t necessarily mind doing some things with guys. I just don’t think I could do full out gay sex and enjoy it. That’s a minor thing, though. Like I don’t know if anything like that’ll ever happen. I don’t really have any drive to explore. I’m about 50/50 on polyamory, though. Like I just feel like I’ve got a lot of love in me to throw around and if there were some people who were okay with it, then I think I’d be pretty happy in a polyamorous relationship of some kind, but I don’t know if I’ll ever really find out, so for now I’m just not dating anyone although I still have some people I’m “cuddle buddies” with (usually more than cuddling), and they know I’m not exclusive. The reason I think I’m polyamorous and not that I just like sleeping around (still a virgin, btw, as far as penetrative sex is concerned) is cause I do actually deeply care about everyone I’m with, and I don’t really value one person over another. I constantly have to catch myself before I tell someone “I love you” when I’m with them just because none of them would be okay with that. I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt, so it’s really not easy to try out different things. I like what I’ve got now though. But yeah, so, not LGB or T. Just P. Probably. lol.
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| January 8, 2012 at 1:23 pm #22261 | |
| Emily | So what exactly is a polyamorous relationship? Is it like that guy on Sister Wives, or is it like when everyone loves each other? No one ever exlplained it to me. |
| January 8, 2012 at 1:58 pm #22313 | |
 Rebecca | Hello, |
| January 8, 2012 at 2:48 pm #22345 | |
 Evelina | I usually tell people I’m bisexual, because that’s something they can understand even if they aren’t very familiar with LGBTQ issues. It’s not entirely correct, but it’s a lot easier than telling them I identify as queer because then they want to know what I mean by that, and the truth is that I’m not entirely sure. I know for a fact that I’m not straight, but that’s about it. |
| January 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm #22442 | |
 Katie :D | I think I could have a bisexual relationship but the idea of a straight one appeals to me more and I’m more attracted to guys. |
| January 8, 2012 at 9:03 pm #23061 | |
 Ana Suderman | I identify as bisexual but recently have been trying to decide whether or not queer would fit better. I like guys and girls, mainly have had relationships with girls but a few middle school boyfriends that really shouldn’t count too much. I agree with Evelina that saying bi is easier just because people comprehend it a lot better, especially ones who aren’t too well read on LGBT terms, or I guess QUILTBAGPIPE. I’m lucky in that I have plenty of friends and adults who accept me for who I am. That’s something that I know not everyone has and something I hope to maybe fix as I grow up and get a job and such. |
| January 9, 2012 at 9:25 pm #24945 | |
| Alix @liesforneweyes | @katiieraptor @fluffyrose thats kind of similar to me. I’ve with a guy at the moment and more than happy to stay with guys, i just occasionally will see a good looking girl and be a little attracted. I haven’t really told anyone but a close group of friends and so i haven’t labled myself anything really. |
| January 9, 2012 at 11:06 pm #25169 | |
 Deanne (@theblueauthor) | @teaandtorchwood I am totally gay/lesbian I kind switch between the two words, but I know I totally and only like girls so it is kind of nice to fit and find similar people. |
| January 10, 2012 at 12:08 am #25253 | |
 Bridget | the QUILTBAGPIPE thing is really cute and creative! I identify as queer, but the more time goes by, the less attracted I am to men. only time can tell where that goes. I like to think of things on the more romantic side than the sexual side. I really have no interest in sex, just in romance. only my friends in college know, really. because they’re all queer too. my high school friends probably suspected something because I was GSA president for 2 years and was always volunteering for equality california and such, but I never told them anything specific. |
| January 10, 2012 at 12:19 am #25266 | |
 Rhianna | I think I’d be more of the Gay part in Gay-Straight Alliance. |
| January 11, 2012 at 1:25 am #26908 | |
| Emily | Yeah, I only came out to one person (outside of the interwebs) out of dumb luck. I more or less stumbled out of the closet after she had professed her bisexuality to me. I told my mom too, but I don’t think she believes that I truly like girls, even though she’s incredibly LGBT friendly. |
| January 11, 2012 at 1:27 am #26913 | |
| Deanne (@theblueauthor) | @rainbowsprinkles |
| January 11, 2012 at 2:10 am #27022 | |
| Emily | @theblueauthor you know, I might just take you up on that! I hate talking about it with my other friend because I’m always afraid that I’m talking TOO much about it and annoying her. It’s frustrating having to not talk about something that you’ve kept to yourself your whole life, you know? |
| January 11, 2012 at 2:42 am #27095 | |
| Deanne (@theblueauthor) | @rainbowsprinkles |
| January 11, 2012 at 6:15 am #27340 | |
 Elsie Plummer | I identify as a girl, and i’m bisexual |
| January 11, 2012 at 8:21 pm #27706 | |
 Sacha | Although I feel like I’m pansexual, I also often call myself bisexual, because pansexual takes more time to explain and I don’t feel like explaining what it is all the time. |
| January 11, 2012 at 8:39 pm #27737 | |
 Andrew badley | I am attracted to EVERYTHING, men, women, furries, scalies, everything. I just say I’m straight though, since I don’t ever feel much of a need to express my attraction to an anthropomorphic, transgendered lizard. I also feel an urge to wear women’s clothes, though I haven’t felt it for long enough to indulge in this fascination. I’m sorry to be so strange, there’s weirder stuff that I left out. |
| January 12, 2012 at 2:54 am #28304 | |
 Aimee | I don’t have a label for myself, but I’m a girl and I like girls, and sometimes guys, so hi! ^.^ |
| January 14, 2012 at 8:13 pm #31111 | |
 Kyle Corcoran | I have always identified myself as a homosexual ever since I was 13, but the strange things it when people meet me, they never can actually figure it out until I tell them. I wonder if the Kinsey scale has levels for both feminine-straight males and straight-gay males. I wish not to use the word acting because it is actually who they are as a person. |
| January 15, 2012 at 12:19 am #31489 | |
 Marie | I like to think of myself as panromantic. Whoever I fall for, I fall for. Love is love and all that =P I’m not interested in sex (like someone else on here, it really freaks me out-especially with men though), and while I find guys attractive, I tend to like girls more (physically). I don’t really feel the need to put a label on that aspect and call myself a lesbian, so I just stick with panromantic. It took a long time to figure it out, and I was kind of confused for a while, but when it hit me over the head that I was in love with my (straight, taken) friend, I understood. |
| January 15, 2012 at 5:45 pm #32555 | |
 Indigo | I am…. a something. I was born a boy and I am attracted to boys, but I prefer to be seen as a girl and also wouldn’t entirely rule out maybe dating a girl. So yeah, I’m not exactly sure. But I am queer as a seven legged pig, I know that much! 8D |
| January 16, 2012 at 7:06 pm #33797 | |
 Wolfgang | Hi. I think I was in the old thread a bit. I’m somewhere on the gay end of the Kinsey scale, but I’m still somewhat attracted to female people. |
| January 16, 2012 at 7:28 pm #33819 | |
 Stephen | The QUILTBAGPIPE acronym is totally awesome! Love it. Out of all of those awesomely arranged letters, I’m G. |
| January 17, 2012 at 1:50 am #34652 | |
 Kaitlyn Ramsey | I am female (though often mistaken for male and not bothered by it), and I think that I am the A of QUILTBAGPIPE, but me being unsure makes me the U I suppose. I think that I would also be aromantic, I don’t have crushes and am pretty grossed out by the idea of dating or kissing. I cannot really imagine dating anyone ever. I don’t really know and that isn’t really something that people think can happen. It’s more like you can like the same gender, the other gender, or both, but not neither. |
| January 18, 2012 at 10:28 pm #36507 | |
 Matti | So this is gonna be the weirdest post, but basically hi I recently realised that I’m not straight, or gay, or bi…I think I’m mostly asexual, in that sex doesn’t really interest me at all. In a relationship all I want is companionship, shared interests, love for being me The difficulty is that I haven’t told my family, and I’m not sure how to do it? Any advice would be welcome also, QUILTBAGPIPE is awesome, I guess I am the A, or the U, or the L, or the B lol |
| January 18, 2012 at 10:44 pm #36509 | |
| Deanne (@theblueauthor) | @mattiheartshp |
| January 18, 2012 at 10:50 pm #36512 | |
| Matti | @Deanne thank you |
| January 18, 2012 at 10:53 pm #36515 | |
| Deanne (@theblueauthor) | @mattiheartshp |
| January 19, 2012 at 7:59 pm #37156 | |
 Rhiannon | I’m a multisexual cis lady. (That’s right – lady. I’m classin’ up the place.) |
| January 20, 2012 at 4:52 am #37603 | |
| Wolfgang | @raibean Well is that so, m’lady? I do say, the place is so “classed up” that high class radiates from the very letters that comprise your post. Your sentences are a glimmer of hope in this festering series of tubes. On behalf of all of the QUILTBAGPIPE High Society Scholarly Gentlefolk’s Country Club, I welcome you to this internet forum. |
| January 20, 2012 at 7:23 am #37623 | |
| Rhiannon | Classy enough to require a top hat and monocle? It’s my goal to be that classy by 2013. |
| January 21, 2012 at 12:17 am #38006 | |
| Emily | @bromine35 Mmm, well said, my good sir. I could not have worded it better. I think it’s in order to grant this fine lady her top hat and monocle. |
| January 26, 2012 at 1:31 am #42593 | |
 Spencer | Hello all! As a side note, I really think we should start campaigning to change LGBT to QUILTBAGPIPE. It’s so much more smooth and catchy |
| January 26, 2012 at 2:36 am #42659 | |
| Rhiannon | I just say “queer” instead of LGBT. It really covers all of us, but “QUILTBAGPIPE” doesn’t. Plus, I would contest having “polyamorous” in the acronym (not out of prejudice; my own family is poly). Another term is GSM, Gender and Sexual Minorities. Well, Spencer, maybe you’re bigender. Maybe you’re another type of genderqueer. My genderqueer sister is still figuring out what to call herself and if she wants different pronouns. It’s okay to not know. If you want to use a word that just means “sexually/romantically attracted to women”, I’ve seen gynyphilia before. (The same sort of attraction ot men would be androphilia, but I have yet to see a term for attraction to non-binary genders or androgyny. We COULD say andogynyphilia, but as you can see, it still relies on a binary prefix system.) |
| February 2, 2012 at 7:19 am #47718 | |
 Eric | Hey all, I’m Eric. I’m gay and currently living life in Portland oregon. I never really had much confusion about who I am, I just didn’t want to tell anyone. I was finally able to come out and be myself once I moved up here. A lot of people don’t know I’m gay and it surprises them when I make a comment or statement. Every one who knows right now has been super supportive. |
| February 3, 2012 at 5:42 am #48236 | |
| Wolfgang | @raibean The “E” in QUILTBAGPIPE stands for Everyone Else, so I’d say the acronym encompasses everyone. |
| February 6, 2012 at 8:09 pm #49843 | |
 J.Merrill | First, this forum is awesome. I am very glad to see it here and I’m glad to be a part of a community where sexual/romantic/gender expression and identity is just another aspect of life and not that big of a deal. Secondly, w00t bisexuality. Take that bi-erasure, can’t ignore us now can you!? Sorry, as an officer in our college GSA who’s dating a girl (I’m a cis gender male) I’m tired of being told that I’m really an ally or that my relationship (which is going on 16 months now and looking toward engagement in June) isn’t real or won’t work out because I’m gay. Yep, because even among the persecuted there’s still prejudice. Also, labels are difficult, and kinda silly. I think QUILTBAGPIPE captures this sort of absurdity very nicely. Well done. |
| February 6, 2012 at 10:27 pm #49921 | |
 Xander | Hey there! I’m Xander and I identify as a lot of things. I’m a transguy and I’m graysexual/aflexible (which is my new favorite label, by the way). I identify as panromantic as well, although I’m not exactly sure where I fall in terms of romantic/sexual attraction anymore because figuring out my gender identity screwed some of that up and I still haven’t quite worked it out. Usually I just tell people I’m queer and that pretty much covers it. Also, I love QUILTBAGPIPE. The LGBTQetc. acronym is starting to get a little unruly. |
| February 8, 2012 at 5:26 am #50851 | |
 Devina | First off, QUILTBAGPIPE is amazing. I’m in love with it already. Second, hello there nerdfighteria! I’m somewhere between bisexual and pansexual. This is said because I’ve identified as bisexual for five years now and it’s hard to let go of it, but I’m starting to lean farther toward pansexual after developing a greater understanding of it. Nice to meet you all! |
| February 14, 2012 at 1:41 am #54139 | |
 Jessica | I’m basically going to repeat Devina’s post. I usually identify as bisexual, but really it’s for the people I’m saying it to as it’s the thing the general public is likely to understand. I view myself as pansexual, or just fluid in general. This is my first post in your pants (I absolutely loved typing that) and I’m glad it’s a QUILTBAGPIPE thing. I feel like nerdfighting is 1 part liking science fiction or reading or whatever you’re nerdy about and two parts decreasing worldsuck, and having forums where people do both is pretty excellent. Lovely to meet all you nerdfighters. |
| February 15, 2012 at 5:48 am #54936 | |
 Karina | Asexual. Panromantic, but I don’t really seek out romantic relationships. I’m perfectly happy not being in one. |
| February 16, 2012 at 3:20 am #55265 | |
 Elle | I’m not totally sure what my sexuality is, but I’m okay with that. I suppose I’m bisexual, but I might even be pansexual. I guess I won’t ever know until I find myself attracted/unattracted to a transsexual person. Right now I know that I find women incredibly attractive and could see myself in a relationship with one, but I’m in a relationship with a man whom I love and want to spend the rest of my life with. Sooo yeah |
| February 16, 2012 at 3:30 pm #55410 | |
| Rhiannon | The difference between bisexuality and pansexuality is NOT attraction or lack of attraction to transsexual/transgender individuals. Bisexual people ARE attracted to trans* men and trans* women, but as a general rule they are NOT attracted to genderqueer persons. The myth that bisexual people aren’t attracted to trans* men and women is cissexist in that is asserts trans* men and women are somehow not men and women. |
| February 16, 2012 at 8:01 pm #55542 | |
| Elle | @Rhiannon I’m referring to transsexuals as people who have the parts of a male and female, not to transgendered people who identify as a gender other than their sex. And just saying, that what a post on my personal feelings about sexuality and your post felt like an attack on that. :/ Personally as a bisexual I haven’t found myself attracted to a transsexual, but I have been attracted to transgendered (or gender queer) people as well as cis. That’s all.
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| February 16, 2012 at 8:09 pm #55548 | |
| Rhiannon | I am sorry my post was that brusque; I should have known better and been more diplomatic. What you mean by “transsexual” is still unclear, but I think you might mean intersex people. While intersex people fall under the trans* umbrella, they are not inherently trans*. A transsexual is almost exclusively used to refer to people who choose to go through SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), though some people who fall under “transsexual” prefer the word transgender (and it IS transgender, never transgendered). |
QUILTBAGPIPE. Yes. I agree. Amazing.
I am so happy right now, but confused and a little wired too so I will try and make sense.
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