We Speak Buffalo
What lines?
Most of us in society are very good at recognizing boundaries, drawing lines, and maintaining our distances. We want everyone to be able to come together, but without crossing those boundaries.
An interesting phenomenon has occurred in the past decade or so however, one that tends to repeat itself frequently. Generation X is breaking down boundaries. With the in-your-face “you better love me-as I am!” attitude, this X prides itself on blurring the lines.
Parents recall their children asking all those “why” questions and throwing around the word “no” in the same manner they did with their spaghetti. Flash forward to those same kids 15-20 years later doing the same thing.
Generation X has repeatedly refused to “grow up”. They don’t want to leave all the tough questions behind and just fall in line. So they don’t. They might look ridiculous to many of us on the outside. What are 20-years-olds still doing still throwing their spaghetti? But the larger questions are what X really wants you to tackle:
Why can’t guys and girls just be friends?
What’s the point of marriage? Why do we need a piece of paper?
What exactly is “sexuality”?
Why does it matter what I wear?
Now, these are all questions we have asked or still ask. The difference between “us” and “them” however, is that they live it. They refuse to shut up and sit down. They stand tall and loudly scream “why?”, again, and again, and again. Just like a parent gets frustrated with their 2-yr-old when they do it, we have stopped wondering if X maybe has a point here. Why, indeed.
Bisexuality is among one of these questioned categories. Again, nothing really new, but X brings it to the forefront. Why can’t we love men and women? People are people. Once we see them as such, all other boundaries begin to fall away.
Meet, Lance, the MySpace starter of Front Range VIP. Growing up, he didn’t really have a place to go where people understood his sexual orientation. You either go to a straight club or a gay one. There are so many people that get left out in between, like the bisexual niche he now tries to reach out to.
“People keep saying they don’t want to go see Romeo Delight because it’s not their type of music. What I want them to see is that it’s bigger than that. This is about a group of people getting together that understands one another, can relate to each other. This time it’s around music, next time knitting for all I care. They need a place to meet though, and I’m creating it. And there are always ways to dance to VanHalen music, I don’t care who you are.”
“You don’t have to relate to all those people who don’t get it,” he says about his start-up niche. “We are unconforming.” Front Range VIP works to bring together the bisexual community and go to varying events together. Their official kick-off event will be Friday, July 31st, at The Roadhouse in Dacono.
Lance and the rest of X work toward what they see as a deeper level of understanding, one that might even bring us beyond the world of bisexuality. Pansexuality takes bisexuality to a whole other level. It makes the assumption, indeed the allowance, that there are more than two columns for gender. We casually call people male and female, but the ever-widening trend seems to point out that again, people don’t always color within the lines.
Not to be confused with sheer hedonism or anarchy, X asks to understand. If the rest of us can’t come up with reasonable answers for them, other than the terrible cliché even we can’t stand, “just because”, why aren’t we asking the same thing?
“Why” is no longer a childhood phase. It is the battle cry for a country now run by the voice of Change.
An interesting phenomenon has occurred in the past decade or so however, one that tends to repeat itself frequently. Generation X is breaking down boundaries. With the in-your-face “you better love me-as I am!” attitude, this X prides itself on blurring the lines.
Parents recall their children asking all those “why” questions and throwing around the word “no” in the same manner they did with their spaghetti. Flash forward to those same kids 15-20 years later doing the same thing.
Generation X has repeatedly refused to “grow up”. They don’t want to leave all the tough questions behind and just fall in line. So they don’t. They might look ridiculous to many of us on the outside. What are 20-years-olds still doing still throwing their spaghetti? But the larger questions are what X really wants you to tackle:
Why can’t guys and girls just be friends?
What’s the point of marriage? Why do we need a piece of paper?
What exactly is “sexuality”?
Why does it matter what I wear?
Now, these are all questions we have asked or still ask. The difference between “us” and “them” however, is that they live it. They refuse to shut up and sit down. They stand tall and loudly scream “why?”, again, and again, and again. Just like a parent gets frustrated with their 2-yr-old when they do it, we have stopped wondering if X maybe has a point here. Why, indeed.
Bisexuality is among one of these questioned categories. Again, nothing really new, but X brings it to the forefront. Why can’t we love men and women? People are people. Once we see them as such, all other boundaries begin to fall away.
Meet, Lance, the MySpace starter of Front Range VIP. Growing up, he didn’t really have a place to go where people understood his sexual orientation. You either go to a straight club or a gay one. There are so many people that get left out in between, like the bisexual niche he now tries to reach out to.
“People keep saying they don’t want to go see Romeo Delight because it’s not their type of music. What I want them to see is that it’s bigger than that. This is about a group of people getting together that understands one another, can relate to each other. This time it’s around music, next time knitting for all I care. They need a place to meet though, and I’m creating it. And there are always ways to dance to VanHalen music, I don’t care who you are.”
“You don’t have to relate to all those people who don’t get it,” he says about his start-up niche. “We are unconforming.” Front Range VIP works to bring together the bisexual community and go to varying events together. Their official kick-off event will be Friday, July 31st, at The Roadhouse in Dacono.
Lance and the rest of X work toward what they see as a deeper level of understanding, one that might even bring us beyond the world of bisexuality. Pansexuality takes bisexuality to a whole other level. It makes the assumption, indeed the allowance, that there are more than two columns for gender. We casually call people male and female, but the ever-widening trend seems to point out that again, people don’t always color within the lines.
Not to be confused with sheer hedonism or anarchy, X asks to understand. If the rest of us can’t come up with reasonable answers for them, other than the terrible cliché even we can’t stand, “just because”, why aren’t we asking the same thing?
“Why” is no longer a childhood phase. It is the battle cry for a country now run by the voice of Change.
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