Fear of a Bi Planet
The fracas over Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo’s coming out reveals gatekeepers’ fears of a world where “everyone gets to be queer.”
Let us now congratulate Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, daughter of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who came out as bisexual on June 3rd, 2021, and who took only four weeks to complete the holiest bisexual rite of passage: Going viral as an example of a confused “straight woman.”
Kennedy-Cuomo’s coming-out post, on Instagram, clearly identified her as a “bisexual person.” Outlets that reported the announcement, like the Huffington Post and People, used the word “bisexual” in their headlines. Then, a few weeks later, Kennedy-Cuomo used the word “demisexual” in an interview, and all Hell broke loose.
Twitter user Madison Hartman’s screencap of a New York Post article was retweeted by friend of the blog Glenn Greenwald, who spent hours mocking Kennedy-Cuomo. Other men with large platforms joined in.
