Understanding Pansexuality: An In-depth Interview

This Diverse Other assignment helped me to understand a sexual orientation that is different than my own. It lead me to become knowledgeable about pansexuality and how it differs from traditional, and even other non-traditional sexualities. I conducted my interview with an individual named Christina March. She is my roommate, which is how I found her for the interview. I decided to ask March questions due to her sexual orientation of pansexuality. March describes pansexuality as a sexuality that gender does not matter to them, their attraction depends more on the person themselves rather than the gender they identify with. During my interview I expected to hear about how her sexual orientation has caused people to treat her different, when she learned she was a non-traditional sexual orientation, and the difficulties that she personally faces due to her sexuality. All of my expectations and more were met

In comparison to other sexual orientations, March says that pansexual is more widely accepted. Despite this, March’s own parents rejected her sexuality as first, stating that it was not actually really. They even cut her off from her then girlfriend. Most people assume that she is heterosexual, this prevents her from having to confront the difficulties that some other sexualities face. Another difficulty she encounters is that while TV shows ar4e starting to represent more sexualities, they often portray them incorrectly. March also says that it is difficult being pansexual because since she is not only attracted to one sex she gets rejected by different groups. These groups include gay people and heterosexual people, they think she should have to choose one. When she tells people that she is pansexual they assume that she cheats on her fiance. But thankfully she rarely face the persecution that some sexualities