Never fear, the reality police are here. Folks, bisexuality is fantastic. It challenges our norms, and isn’t that what we want? For society to accept something like, I dunno, Transexual Equality or Gay Marriage, norms have to be challenged, the status quo has to be questioned, and that’s just the first step. Bisexuality puts into question our notions of monogamy and of homogeneous relationships. So why not Bi plus Bi plus Gay? Or Bi plus Lesbian Transexual? Are we so conditioned we can’t conceive of a bisexual person being emotionally committed to one or more human beings? Don’t equate bisexuality with unfaithfulness (or with polyamor--that's my own linkage), please, regardless of your sexuality. It’s what straight people accuse queer people of: oh, you’re gay, you people sleep around all the time, ew disease, AIDS and BIRD FLU, in the name of God, wah wah wah.

Here’s why I’m writing about this: In Nilo Cruz’s play BEAUTY OF THE FATHER Federico García Lorca’s ghost is a character who happens to love and protect the main (male) character, the Father. In Michael Feingold’s Village Voice review of the play, he makes remarkably offensive assumptions about sexuality.

The facts: the Father has an unconventional family, he has: 1) a “wife” with whom he never has sex, except maybe when they’re really drunk—and she’s okay with that, she knew before she married him that he prefers men; 2) a live-in “lover” who falls in love with a woman; and 3) an unsanctified (no kissing or fucking) romance with Lorca’s ghost. The term bisexual is NEVER uttered in the play but Feingold says, ahem: “…that the hero, a bisexual painter and sculptor, would probably have only limited feeling for a wholly homosexual and wholly word-obsessed figure like Lorca, [doesn’t] matter to Cruz.” Wow. Wow wow wow. Really? Limited feeling? What’s unlimited feeling? You know, some people (high maintenance) have REALLY high expectations. Unlimited feeling. Is that what Jesus feels for his lambs? I mean, like, so if Lorca had been a pussy-fucking, cock-sucking, graphic designer then mmmmmaaaaybe the two could have unlimited Jesusish love, but not otherwise. Or is Feingold saying that the relationship between the “bisexual” hero and Lorca is a conundrum Cruz should’ve addressed?

I dunno, call me old fashioned but I don’t find their relationship puzzling. I mean here’s a play that presents unconventional relationships and doesn’t question them or explain them, it just presents them—they just EXIST, and a critic in a liberal, alternative paper, The Village Voice, decides this is bad? The play is called BEAUTY OF THE FATHER. Why? In my third grade report in my imagination I wrote, ahem: The father is beautiful because he can love any people no matter what because he has a very very big heart.

So really think about your attitudes towards bisexuality for starters and then figure out your assumptions about relationships, and really ask yourself if your attitudes promote inclusion or exclusion. STRIVE FOR A BIG HEART! Oh, and maybe Lorca WAS actually bi and not wholly homo--who cares!