You know how life is a journey and all that? It applies to sexuality too.
Sometimes labels are useful. They allow you to define your experience and fine others who are likely to have had similar experiences, or to find people who might want to date you.
Someone might hold on to a label because it's what feels most true to their lived experience. They are totally within their rights to do that. It's not actually okay to police someone else's sex life. I feel like I know a lot of people doing the "lesbian with an exception" thing (which I don't identify with personally any more, but WHATEVER) and you know what? Whatever. They're not betraying any kind of cause. What's actually hurtful to LGBT people is the overall de-legitimizing of their sexuality, is the dominant culture's insistance that people fit neatly into non-confusing boxes.
Sometimes labels are useful. They allow you to define your experience and fine others who are likely to have had similar experiences, or to find people who might want to date you.
Someone might hold on to a label because it's what feels most true to their lived experience. They are totally within their rights to do that. It's not actually okay to police someone else's sex life. I feel like I know a lot of people doing the "lesbian with an exception" thing (which I don't identify with personally any more, but WHATEVER) and you know what? Whatever. They're not betraying any kind of cause. What's actually hurtful to LGBT people is the overall de-legitimizing of their sexuality, is the dominant culture's insistance that people fit neatly into non-confusing boxes.