Categorization Solomon, Rebecca May 24, 2004 i am not just my sexual orientation. i have feelings, emotions, words to say. please look beyond who i love to see all there is about me. i am beautiful, i am an individual. please don't lump me over there with all the "dykes". don't shove me into a category simply because of what turns me on. i will speak up for what i believe in -whatever that may be- don't say i can't paint my fingernails because i like girls, and don't you DARE call me a femme, 'cause i can wield a power tool with the best of them. but wait, that doesn't mean i'm a butch, either. why do you say that i can't make it in life, just because i'm a girl, a lesbian, a minority? yeah, right. i will go out in the world, save it even, if i please. i will turn my back on all your labels, and be who i am- me.

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