If the air is sacred to us, we can't sit by and run our air conditioning as the ozone is destroyed. What is sacred is what we are willing to sacrifice for. This vision of the earth is also integrally connected to our struggles as lesbian, gay and bisexual people. For if we experience the earth as a living being, then in all honesty I think we have to admit that she's an erotic being. We are part of an erotic being in an erotic universe, whose deepest purposes seem to be served by getting various creatures to rub against each other in a wide variety of ways.
Erotic energy holds the universe together.
When we hold the erotic as sacred, we say that our capacity for pleasure has a value in and of itself, that in fact it is one of the ways in which we connect with the deepest purposes of the universe. I believe that is the position we as bisexuals need to take. In a world in which attempts to change our orientation by coercion and force abound, lesbians and gays have necessarily defended the position that homosexuality is inborn and unchangeable. While that is true for a certain percentage of gay people, just as it's probably true for a similar percentage of heterosexual people, those of us who are bisexual, and honest, have to admit that our sexual orientation sometimes seems to change with the phases of the moon or the level of pollen in the air, or just with propinquity to whoever happens to be around. I honor the lesbian and gay activists who have made their sexual orientation a cornerstone of their identities, and respect the political need for doing so and the strength that comes from that position.