#but the hoops to leap through to even try to say they’re gay or bisexual is impossible. How can you say it for certain?

[drjohnhwatson]

let me preface by saying im a historian but out on my walk just now i looked up something and it’s funny how we all of us bend over backwards to underline and italicise that we “can’t know for certain” if two men were romantically and sexually together or two women were romantically and sexually together but the same rigorous determination is rarely applied to a guy and a girl or a girl and a guy. any scrap of evidence and the cavalry is off to be all “we can tentatively suggest…” lmao.

anyway. this comes on the heels of this book im reading vociferously declaring that edwin booth was neither gay nor bisexual and i think “how do you know”. if there was no set term for homosexuality there oughtnt have been one for heterosexuality at the time either because it would have just been seen as “default”. Nobody (probably) was running around going “I ONLY LIKE MEN AND I AM A WOMAN”.