Navigation, Exclusion, and Underrepresentation: My Notes on the Black Bisexual Experience
By: Aiyanah Peeples (she/her) It is February, and like every year, I find myself sad about being single (Valentine’s Day) and doing what I can to contribute more to the Black community and Black liberation for Black History Month. I am a young, bisexual, Black, mixed-race, (probably) neurodivergent, American woman. I was also raised in […]
Coming Out One Click at a Time
by Laura Days “I came out to Blue Cross this week,” my friend excitedly told me the other day. I am particularly proud of him for doing so, as he only recently discovered that he’s bisexual (despite years of evidence passing right over his head), and I have been acting as sort of a “bi […]
Heated Rivalry: A Love Letter to Bisexuals
By: Noël Sertel (they/she) Warning: This blog post contains spoilers Heated Rivalry Season 1 and Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. If you’re a fan of queer, contemporary romance novels like myself, there’s a chance you’ve heard this one before: a bisexual or questioning man falls in love with another man, only to realize *gasp* “He […]
The Impact of Loraine Hutchins on Bi+ Organizing
Bailey Merlin | she/her The Bisexual Resource Center honors the life and legacy of Dr. Loraine Hutchins: a foundational figure in bi+ organizing whose work helped make our community possible long before many of us had language, safety, and/or visibility. Some people shape movements through institutions. Others do it through presence, persistence, and a refusal […]
The Power of Showing Up: Bisexual+ Voices at City Hall
Lo (Lauren) Mariolis | she/her I’ve always been a quiet bisexual.* Proud, confident—but quiet. Living my life. Minding my business. Flying below the radar. For a long time, that felt just fine. I knew who I was. The people I loved—and who loved me—celebrated who I was. Why make things more complicated? But as time […]
Statement on National Bi+ Erasure
The current U.S. administration has been loudly and aggressively attacking the trans community in ways that have taken center stage in all of our news feeds. We have been standing in solidarity with our trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and intersex siblings as politicians the world over try to erase this vibrant community from our collective history […]
Celebrate Valentine’s Day (or don’t!) with Bi+ Undiluted: harmony and Bi+ Undiluted: dissonance!
For many, bisexuality is not just an identity, it’s a profound experience. Whether reflecting on a person’s internal journey or navigating interpersonal relationships, identifying as bisexual signifies a declaration of choice – embracing the totality of the past, present, and future. A bisexual person’s love life is often decorated with as much duality as their […]
Reminiscing About ABilly Jones-Hennin: A Bi+ Trailblazer
By Ellyn Ruthstrom I first met ABilly Jones-Hennin at a meeting on the Hill in Washington where LGBTQ+ leaders from around the country were being briefed on various policy initiatives during the early days of the Obama Administration. I didn’t know who he was and just assumed he was a DC-based bi person who was […]
15 Bi+ Artists Represented Across 27 Categories at the 2024 Grammys
2023 was a great year for out and proud bisexuals+, and the Bicons in the mainstream music industry were no exception! At the 2024 Grammys, bi+ musicians are staking their claims in some of the ceremony’s most prominent categories like Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New […]
Investing in Bisexual+ Community is the Antidote to Loneliness
by Bailey Merlin When I started my master’s degree program at Harvard Medical School, I wanted to study the loneliness epidemic. Upon starting my research, I quickly realized that the LGBTQ+ community was more than twice as likely to experience loneliness than their heterosexual counterparts. Looking closer at the numbers, I was stunned to see […]