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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sometimes get straight cis people calling themselves queer because they're poly or into kink, which makes me roll my eyes but does happen. They also might be one or both bisexual. Some people like that might call themselves queer.

Personally, I'm cis and straight but I'm married to a trans man (I'm also a man, we don't have sex anymore). I'd never call myself queer, but my family is (even when he passes we look like two guys), so my language there shifts depending on context. Obviously that doesn't sound like what's happening here, but a reminder that things can be complicated.[/quote]

I think the straight cisgender people that claim they’re queer because they are poly feel like they aren’t accepted by society.  To be truthful, society in general isn’t very pro open marriage but it’s not the same as being LGBT.  People just think poly people are weird and don’t understand how they make it work (and to be fair many do not and there are hurt feelings).  I haven’t heard of any cishet people that have been disowned by their families like gay and trans people often are.[/quote]

Maybe not disowned by families but I know many poly people who’s families will only recognize one partner/refuse to acknowledge any other relationships. I’m poly but am not out to my family because it wouldn’t be worth the drama.

I don’t consider poly to be queer but lots of poly people are also queer (not cisgender heterosexual). I’m bisexual and I don’t think my marriage to a man should erase that, but for many people it does (unless I’m actively on a date with a woman, I’m just a straight lady to them.)[/quote]

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