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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Day that Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality. To mark the occasion, I’m going to tell you all a little story. 1/

This is the epic tale of how @ekseebacher.bsky.social and I became formally known to the United States Congress as depraved pagan scoundrels. It begins with a wedding. 2/

Our wedding. Our story begins on a bright spring morning in 1995. Our wedding day. This was a picture taken that morning. Don’t we look adorable? Don’t we look wholesome? 3/

(Dear reader: they were not wholesome.) 4/

In April, at a meeting of UCBU — the University of Chicago Bisexual Union, of which Ellen was a founding member — we learned that Newsweek was planning a cover story on “Bisexuality”. A local freelancer was interested in attending one of our meetings to hear our stories. 6/

Would we be comfortable with that? Would we *ever*. 7/

The next meeting of UCBU was the best attended one we’d had in *months*. Everyone had something they wanted to bring up. It was pretty great and raucous. 8/