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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her serve has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a second, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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With lgbtq+ marriage being as prominent (and contested) as it is on social/regular media I keep asking myself how it is that some people could own a problem with something so harmless.

Of all issues to have, to opt for a non-issue makes no sense to me.

Another good ask to ask though with regards to this comic is what if none of these men are straight, or gay.  What if they were all bisexual? Pansexual?  Or even asexual?

It’s vital not to create assumptions.  Sure, there can be cultural or physical indicators here and there but at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter.

There’s this idea that you can “spot” a queer person just by looking at them, and while it’s true that some queer folk broadcast their lifestyle (just like how some wear football jerseys 24/7), many don’t.

My point is this, we acquire to stop immediately assuming that men (or people in general, really) are straight by default. What good does it do us? When we build these assumptions we are twice as likely to accidentally insult the people aro