Exactly.

If you say you're gay/lesbian and date someone of the opposite sex at some point, people say you were just going through a phase, you were faking it, blah, blah, blah.

If you say you're bisexual and go through a time of switching to dating just men or just women, people say you were never bi, you were either experimenting or not ready to fully come out of the closet.

I honestly hate labels and see no need for them.

I hate to seem so irate over the whole thing, but it is something that just makes me mad. The funny thing is that its the NON-straight community that cares so darn much about my orientation (and not because there's any interest). Funny because people have this assumption that its narrow minded straight people that are the most judgmental. So not true. Straight people are like "fck, we don't care what you are!" Its live and let live. I've had gay/lesbian people tell me that my sexuality doesn't exist or that I'm just not ready to come out (when i would say I was bi). I was PRESSURED to admit I was a lesbian! I've been pressured to clearly identify my orientation as if its going to be set in stone. ARGH. Just live and let live. I honestly think that all of these labels just create distance between people instead of bringing everyone together. That is, it may bring those with the same label together, but overall labeling only serves to put distance between said groups. We need to treat people as individuals and not as a label.

*end vent*