Peter - black top hat

(Caucasian/Korean; fifth year senior, theatre/English major, age 22)

1. To me, sexuality consists of all of the complex social and personal identities that constitute my “self” (with the quotes representing Peter’s use of the gesture, air quotes). It involves everything surrounding and influencing the expression of his sexual desires and expectations.

2. “Are you seriously asking me if I am a homo!?!”

3. Groom with the bouquet of flowers - “You best believe if I ever get married I am going to fuck shit up. If I want a bouquet, dammit, I get a bouquet.”
Sports equipment - “He has to be hot. I like jock bodies the best.”
Gender is not real - It’s not real in that it cannot be limited to a certain category of characteristics. There is an infinite amount of ways in which gender in interpreted and expressed so it seems illogical to try to categorize a person’s gender, especially with only two options.
Rights/Do you have to get married? - With all the debate about gay marriage lately, it has become especially important to him, not that he necessarily wants to get married in the future, but he would still like that possibility to exist. “None of this civil union bullshit.” It infuriates him that conservatives try to placate “us” with promises of a civil union.
Artist’s Palette - “Obviously, I am an artist. Not a painter, but it works all the same. Art is my passion and it often very obviously reflects my attitudes on sexuality and gender and what affect this have on how I identify my ‘self”.”
Diagram of Male Body - “I need someone who is not afraid to speak up and tell me what they like, because I sure as hell have no shame when it comes to sex.”
Warped - Most people view non-heterosexual relations as perverse or demented. “I say hell yeah! because at least I am not trapped in some bullshit, boring, normative hetero relationship where I am limited in my sexuality.” He thinks discussions of perversion are absolutely necessary to begin breaking down normative gender identities and opening up new space for discussions of sexuality as it truly is - “weird and complicated, dirty and beautiful, innocent and perverse.”