Hey everyone! Welcome to a new series of posts that we are going to be doing entitled PrideMooseDesigns Behind The Scenes (PMD BTS). This is created to give you a further understanding of our company and the people who run it. We will be posting every Wednesday a new Behind the Scenes snippet.
Our first two posts will be introductory posts! Kris already did a short introduction post here, but I figured that each of us should do our own more personal introduction.
I’m a born and raised Mainah (or Mainer if you don’t have a New England accent). I’ve lived here my whole life and even attended college at a UMaine school. Maine has always been a safe bubble for me, my area is rather liberal and my parents have always been supportive. I’ve met people who fall everywhere on the spectrums both of gender identity and sexuality. Maine may not be the most exciting state, but I feel like it’s one of the few where (at least in Southern Maine) people feel a bit more like they don’t have to hide who they truly are.
I’m - as Kris mentioned before - a cisgender female who is a little unsure of where I fall in the sexuality spectrum. At 15, I started to realize that the ‘oh hey that girl is cute’ was more than just an appreciation for the beauty of the female form. I wasn’t sure what to call myself but bisexual felt like it fit best of all the labels I knew because I had dated boys, and at 15 I dated my first girl. My world got much brighter after that first girlfriend. I felt a weight lifted off of me, like this was what felt good and right to me.
Throughout the years I’ve tried to figure out where I belong on the sexuality spectrum but honestly, it’s such a big spectrum that the little boxes we put ourselves in with labels (lesbian, gay, pans, etc) seem a bit stifling.
I came out to my parents in 2012 through Facebook. Though they’d always been supportive I was nervous to tell them how I felt. At that point I really had a strong grasp on the sense that I did not find men sexually appealing (I had broken up with a boyfriend 3 months prior whom I felt no sexual attraction to) and I was pretty sure I fit in that ‘lesbian’ box. I came out as bisexual though, a way to ‘soften the blow’ so to speak. My parents were 110% supportive (even though my mom told me that she would hold out hope I would marry a man one day).
It’s been 5 years since then and the more terms I learn for sexuality, the more confused I get. I like to joke right now that I’m Travis-sexual (my boyfriend of almost 9 months) but when it comes down to being serious about where I feel that I fall, I tend to look to the Kinsey Scale (the numbers version - not the colors) and feel that a 5 sums it up pretty well. I’m mostly interested in women, but there are times when a guy (like my Travis) worm their way in.
When it comes to terms over the scale, though, the more I’ve researched and heard the more I’ve boiled it down to the following. I’m a cisgender female who identifies as a panromantic demisexual.
Thus ends PMD BTS #1: An in depth look into the PR person behind PrideMoose. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Be on the lookout next Wednesday for our next installment where I convince Kris to get a little more personal (hopefully).
Also be sure to check out our Etsy shop, follow us on Facebook and Twitter! We would love any feedback! If you don’t see your sexuality identity or state on our shop - shoot us a message and we will get a shirt made up ASAP!
