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do you mind me asking why bisexual and pansexual both exist when bi can just account for both? 💕 (also i'd love some of that lgbt history)

sapphicvevo:

in all honesty it’s a matter of personal preference. pansexuality as a term started coming around mostly for trans people actually around the 90′s because while bisexuality was labelled as just two genders in the binary (male and female) by straight people when the term first got thrown around, pan was a label that a lot of trans people felt more comfortable using because there were transphobic cis bi people in the community as well as the imposed definition on us by straight people like there still is. 

now that the definition for bisexuality has changed within the community and outside of it (for the most part lol), it’s become more inclusive to those outside of the binary as well!!

so it really is a matter of personal preference on how you identify

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    5. heckery said: My only addition is that the definition of bisexuality as the attraction to both men and women was defined by the Straights ™ and that even though bisexuals in the 90s acknowledged the existence of nb genders in the community definition of bisexuality people still associated bisexuality with the attraction of the two binary genders even tho it was a dumb definition made by dumb straight people who believed we had some disease…
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