Living in the Gray Area: Being Bisexual and Demisexual
By: Sara Schmieder (she/they) In 2021, I found myself sitting in my car next to this person I had just concluded a 3rd date with. It was raining, like a torrential downpour raining so we were sitting in the car waiting for it to subside and debriefing the movie we just watched. When the conversation […]
Between The Cracks: Why Bisexual+ Invisibility in Healthcare is a Problem
By: Mage Hadley (she/her) “So, who is the dad?“ It was a jarring question to be asked by a midwife as I sat waiting for a Caesarian section, body draped in a gown, cannula in my arm. Neither my wife nor I knew what to say. We exchanged a knowing glance. “Our baby doesn’t have […]
Dear Fellow Bisexual: You are Not Alone
By: Darren Bouwmeester, JD, MA (he/him) Dear Fellow Bisexual: I’m writing this letter to you on the occasion of Bi+ Health Awareness Month. This last year was an important one for me, because I went from being a closeted bisexual to being an out bisexual. Woohoo. Not that I’m out to everyone, but coming out […]
Bisexuality as Liberation: Making Room for Fluidity in a Binary World
By Zori Paul, PhD, LPC (she/her) We already know that bisexuality is often misunderstood as “uncertainty,” “indecision,”,or as a temporary stop on the way to something “more real.” But I never saw it that way. For meand for many others, bisexuality is not a limitation but a very liberating identity. For myself, thebi+ label offers […]
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 […]