Lisa Diamond's seventh interview is the one that she remembers best. She had recruited "subject 007" at Cornell University, where she was studying how women who express attraction to other women come to understand their sexual identity. One early evening in 1995, in a conference room on the university campus, she settled down to ask the first question of her subject.
How did 007 currently identify herself on the spectrum of sexual identities? The woman answered that she didn't know. She told Diamond that she had been heterosexual all her life until just that last week, when she suddenly found herself falling in love with her best friend—a woman. They had had sex a couple of times, something she described as very satisfying. Part of Diamond's work was to categorize her subjects based on how they self-identified, but 007 wasn't sure—so Diamond put her into the "unlabeled" category.
By the time 007 left after the two hour interview, Diamond had tentatively concluded that the woman would come out as bisexual in her follow-up interview. But 007 never did. The interaction marked the beginning of Diamond's gradual realization that her assumptions about sexuality needed to change. In addition to the static…
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