“Excuse me,” Iris said, ready to get off this Willy Wonka roller coaster. “But what the hell is happening?”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/27/excuse-me-iris-said-ready-to-get-off-this-willy-wonka-roller-coaster-but-what-the-hell-is-happening/

#ABrightFallsNovel #AmateurTheaterFiction #AmoursRomansNouvellesEtc #AshleyHerringBlake #authors #AuthorsFiction #BisexualFiction #BisexualWomenFiction #book #ContemporaryRomance #DatingSocialCustoms_ #DatingSocialCustomsFiction #drama #ÉcrivainsRomansNouvellesEtc #ExcuseMe #FemmesBisexuellesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FictionRomanceLGBTQGeneral #FictionRomanceRomanticComedy #getOff #happening #Humor #IrisKellyDoesnTDate #LesbianFiction #Lesbians #LesbiansFiction #LesbiennesRomansNouvellesEtc #LGBTQPeople #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQRomanceFiction #LGBTQIAFiction #LittleTheaterMovementFiction #LoveStoriesFiction #Novels #PortlandOrFiction #quote #ready #rollerCoaster #romance #RomanceFiction #RomanceLGBTQ_ #romans #RomansLesbiens #RomanticComedy #SexualMinorities #ThéâtreDAmateursRomansNouvellesEtc #whatTheHell #WillyWonka #WomenNovelistsFiction #WriterSBlockFiction

Yvonne Rorrer Declares Herself Ethically Non-Monogamous

Good for her, and for those of us who are also into ethical non-monogamy.

I have never heard of Yvonne Rorrer until Stephen Colbert talked about her on The Late Show last night. I know she is a Democrat, but I don’t know more about her political positions. At any rate, it is a good thing that she declared herself ethically non-monogamous in a statement. I’m not saying that she came out because I got from a Huffington Post article that she was already out.

Colbert talked about her as a swinger. Mainstream media often does such a piss-poor job at reporting about things they do not understand that I was wondering whether swinger was her expression, or whether the journalists jumped the gun, and assumed. The Huffington Post article I link to above confirms it is her expression.

Ethical non-monogamy is a large umbrella term. Swinging falls under this umbrella, and so does polyamory. (I am polyamorous.) In all cases, of ethical non-monogamy, the assumption is that everyone involved knows what is going on. Ethically non-monogamous people do not hide one relationship from another.

One thing irritated me in Colbert’s talk about Rorrer. It came across to me as mononormative. Colbert said,

She might be one of those people who thinks everybody wants to hear about their thing.

😩 Why did he need to go there? Why?

Colbert, like the majority of our population, monogamous, and straight. People will assume, correctly, those two characteristics about him. When people run into someone like me, or like Rorrer, they make the same assumptions, and they are wrong. We are both ethically non-monogamous. I am because I’m polyamorous. Rorrer is because she is a swinger. I’m moreover not straight, because I’m pansexual. I don’t know about Rorrer’s sexual orientation.

We do not talk about our ethical non-monogamy because we think that everybody wants to hear about it. We talk about it to normalize it, and because some people will benefit from it. In a world where monogamous people are in the majority, we who are ethically non-monogamous are assumed to be monogamous too. That is, until we tell people otherwise.

I’m open, too, about all kinds of things. I cannot count the number of times when, after being open about being pansexual, polyamorous, or autistic, I had a nice chat with someone else who was in a similar situation. This discussion would not have happened if I had not been open about my identity.

Please do not assume that when someone is in a minority group that, when they are being open about their identity, their intent is to shove their business into your face.

#AutisticWriters #EthicalNonMonogamy #polyamory #SexualMinorities #StephenColbert #swinging #TheLateShow #YourAutisticLife #YvonneRorrer

The #COVID19 pandemic was stressful for everyone, but some groups were disproportionately affected. See how 2021 data informs the connection between measures of stress and sexual orientation, thanks to Julia Kay Wolf and Jeralynn S. Cossman.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2025.2471363

#covid #sociology #sexualOrientation #stress #distress #sexualMinorities

#Study #highlights #gaps in #measuring #sexualorientation and #mentalhealth #risks

Inconsistent #definitions of "#sexualidentity" across #studies can lead to #misclassification, leaving some #sexualminorities #invisible.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #MentalHealth #Research #Representation #Culture

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20241106/Study-highlights-gaps-in-measuring-sexual-orientation-and-mental-health-risks.aspx

#Eviction, #threats and #suicidalthoughts: #Uganda's #LGBTQ #community endures trying year.

LGBTQ activists say the #AntiHomosexualityAct has given #Ugandans an #implicit #license to #abuse and #discriminate against #sexualminorities

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/eviction-threats-suicidal-thoughts-ugandas-lgbtq-community-endures-try-rcna130313

#Study finds #complex #relationship between #religion and #health among #sexualminorities.

The #study revealed that being part of #religious #communities, whether or not they are #affirming of #LGBTQ #identities, generally correlates with better #health for these individuals, although the #benefits vary across different #religious #traditions.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Health #MentalHealth #Spirituality #Religion

https://www.psypost.org/2023/12/study-finds-complex-relationship-between-religion-and-health-among-sexual-minorities-214962

Ableist As Fuck: "Real-Life Dating Is Better Than Online Dating"

It ignores the very real problem that minorities face in dating.

#YourAutisticLife #ActuallyAutistic #autistic #autism #dating #OnlineDating #RealLifeDating #ableism #queer #lgbtq #polyamory #BDSM #SexualMinorities

(ETA: fixed a stupid typo. 😩 )

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourautisticlife/p/ableist-as-fuck-real-life-dating?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Japan's #SupremeCourt holds #hearing on #transgender #woman’s #bathroom #restrictions

The resulting #ruling on the #transgender #woman’s #case, which will mark the first time the Supreme Court has weighed in on the #working #environment for #sexualminorities, and is expected on July 11.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Asia #Japan #Workplace #Harassment #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/16/national/crime-legal/transgender-official-bathroom-supreme-court/

Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-LGBTQ+ bill

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/20/ugandas-president-refuses-to-sign-new-hardline-anti-gay-bill

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #genderminorities #sexualMinorities #humanrights #queer #sexualandreproductiverights

How caste comes into play when climate changes

Dalit and Adivasi communities have fewer adaptation resources to combat the damage from events related to climate change since they continue to be deprived of socio-economic and political rights and face systemic discrimination.

#ClimateChange #caste #dalits #adivasis #tribals #SCST #labourers #marginalised #inequality #poverty #CasteDiscrimination #SexualMinorities #nomads #HumanRights #SocialJustice #environment #india

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/caste-climate-change-8558611/

#Displaced twice: #Gay #Ugandans #ontherun face upheaval in #Kenya

Ugandans on the run from their country due to #persecution as #SexualMinorities are facing #discrimination in their adopted home of #kenya too.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #Uganda #Kenya #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/3/29/displaced-twice-ugandan-queers-on-the-run-face-upheaval-in-kenya