i’m going to get discourse-y here.

saying that cishets in relationships shouldn’t use the term “partner” bc you personally felt tricked into assuming they were gay comes off as very privileged to me. when either i or my partners have been closeted the ambiguity of the term “partner” has saved my ass so so many times , and this is entirely hinged on the use of “partner” by straight people to give me plausible deniability regarding my or my partner’s status as LGBT.

like i’m sorry you thought your professor was in a same gender relationship and were proven wrong but honestly the status of their and their partner’s gender / sexuality and married / unmarried status is between them alone if they want to use that term publicly. also you finding cool lgbt friends based off hip lingo isn’t as important as me and many other lgbt people’s safety and ability to traverse within the closet

When I started om a 1 month contract at a new job, a coworker was mentioning that him and his partner were looking to buy a house. At that time, people using the term partner was new to me and I was wondering if he might be gay and worried I could be horrible about it, so when I mentioned my "partner" he then referred to his partner as "he".

That little realisation, that I could be scary to gay people, because they don't know that I'm not a raging homophobe, made me use partner a bit more as a "you're safe with me, I understand" signal.

Later I got a "boyfriend" whos several years older than me and "boy"friend seems a cringey thing to call him

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