Andrew Cuomo's daughter comes out as "demisexual"
· Jul 6, 2021 · NottheBee.com

The youngest daughter of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo came out this week as a "demisexual," or a person who doesn't feel sexual attraction unless there is a strong emotional and relational bond with a person they like.

In other words, 23-year old Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo has come out as a woman.

"When I was in elementary school, I feared that I was lesbian. When I was in middle school, I came out to my family and close friends as bisexual. When I was in high school, I discovered pansexuality and thought, ‘That's the flag for me.' And I've recently learned more about demisexuality, and have believed that that identity resonates with me most," she said on a livestream with Donato Tramuto, the former CEO of Tivity Health and a donor to the Robert F. Kennedy Center, which employs her mother, Kerry Kennedy.

How sad is this?

This young woman has been struggling for years to define herself in sexual terms. We're now at a place in society where we have to create new terms for people to feel like they have a place at the alphabet table.

Michaela said in a post last month that she was "queer" and spoke in solidarity with "those who are contending with the compulsive heterosexuality our society force feeds us and innate attraction beyond cis[gendered] het[erosexual] folks."

She added that when she first came out as "queer," she feared she would be perceived as "attention-seeking," since it's "hip or cool to not be hetero in my liberal bubble."

Imagine the peer pressure to not be normal. How horrible it must be to be a kid in some of these "liberal bubbles."

I look forward to seeing what new sexual terms we can come up with for individuals struggling to find their place in our new utopia of a society!

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