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The Bisexual Resource Center’s Big Bi+ Joy Survey: What Gives You Hope for the Future as a Bi+ Person?

Edited by Darren Bouwmeester

During Pride 2026, the Bisexual Resource Center is leaning into Bi+ joy and the diversity of our community while amplifying bisexual voices. In that spirit, we created a survey asking you to share your experience as Bi+ people. Throughout Pride season, we are publishing selected responses that highlight what makes this community so wonderful.

In these prior installments of our series, community members responded to the following questions:

For the final segment of our series, our respondents share about what gives them hope for the future as a Bi+ person.

The responses here show that even when the world seems its worst, there is hope to be found: in community, in our queer youth, and in the strength and resilience of our amazing Bi+ community.

What gives you hope for the future as a Bi+ person?

In sharing the survey responses, we have organized them around themes. 

Community Gives Me Hope

Having a community of bi+ friends gives me hope that biphobia won’t be as much of a thing in the future and bi+ folks can be welcomed and celebrated more within the LGBTQ+ space.

L.P., (she, her), Southeast United States

The more time I spend in queer spaces with queer people the more like myself I feel. Building community with other queer people makes me believe that everything is going to be okay.

V.R., (she, her), New York

My community. I have made more friends as a Bi+ person than I ever had before. These are people who I know care about me. It is one of the best things about being Bi+ and in the LGBTQ community. It’s not just Bi+ people because there are loads of LGBTQ people who are great and are good friends to me. 

Wes Brazwell, (he, him), Pennsylvania

Seeing Bi+ people come together, even if only online, to let each other know none of us are alone. Solidarity will help us be brave in this time of persecution.

Karri Watson, (she, her), Tennessee

The Younger Generation

I think Gen Z’s willingness to come out and be open about their sexuality shows that we have always been here, we just needed to know it was safe. I don’t think that each generation has more Bi+ people in it, but I do think that Bi+ people of older generations were afraid to face their own attractions and be open about their sexuality for a long time. By achieving marriage equality, passing anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination legislation, and showing positive role models in the media, the youngest cohort has grown up in a relatively safe environment. They aren’t afraid to honestly acknowledge their own identity or be open about who they are. We are the largest group within the LGBTQ+ community, and I feel like we are starting to come into our own.

Laura Days, (she, her), Massachusetts

More and more people, especially in the younger generations, are exploring their sexual identity and are not afraid to open new doors and try new things. There is more awareness and understanding, which can only help the rest of us to be more open and candid as well.

Fred H., (he, him), Wisconsin

The younger generation that I work with seems much more comfortable outside the binary. So many of them identify as bi/pan or are just OK not knowing quite yet. Many of them are non-binary/genderqueer too. I deeply value being part of these intimate conversations on gender and sexuality. I also find hope in my communities. 

Anonymous, No Location Given

What gives me hope for the future as a bi person is the number of students I work with who have come out to me as bisexual in the past year. I am not out to them, of course, but it’s meant a lot to be able to still support them as a school counselor and to see how the next generation of bi people are confident in their identity.

Gia S., (she, her), New England

The fluidity and representation that youth have and the rights that they have grown up with give me hope that this continual fight for equality and recognition will not falter in future generations.

Deborah Haber, (she,they, he), Massachusetts

People Are More Accepting

What gives me hope for the future is the rise in acceptance and the understanding of propaganda and the way it is used to subjugate marginalized populations.

Sable, (any, all), Indiana

More people are acknowledging us, and not invalidating our existence, duality, complexity, and experience.

Anonymous, (she, her), New York

More people are overcoming recent misinformation about bisexuals and reembracing the term and that gives me hope. 

Alisa S., (She, her/they, them

That the world at large is so increasingly accepting of Bi+ – ness and how normal and common it is.

Beth R., (she, her), Massachusetts

Embracing My Bisexuality Has Given Me Hope

Coming out publicly as bi+ allowed me to understand myself better. I began asking myself questions I had never allowed space for before, and I had the courage and visibility to try new things. This past fall, I came out as nonbinary and genderfluid. 

Kay S., (they, them), Pennsylvania

Being able to fully express myself in multiple ways. I previously mentioned how my bi-ness allows me to use a lens to question norms (as if I don’t do that as an autistic person of color with a blue collar background) and being able to find my niche.

Will H., (he, him), New York

More People Are Coming Out

The fact that even in very stressful dark times people across the country are brave enough to go to Pride. It is such a joyous, beautiful occasion and even in the face of hate people are still so willing to go out there and let the rainbow flag fly, even if people get mad about it. I’m proud of the resilience, joy, and hope that the community refuses to stop expressing. 

Sarah B., (she, her), Virginia

I’m a member of the GenX generation. There aren’t many of us who are out. When I look at my kids’ generation and see the explosion of those who identify as bi+, it gives me hope that the future is one of more acceptance than I have faced. 

Andy T., (he, him), Colorado

That the Bi community will grow and Bi people will feel included and not feel like an outsider in the LGBT+ community.

Geebs 67, (he, him), United Kingdom

Organizations Advocating for Us

All the hard work organisations are putting in to tackle bi-phobia and bi-erasure. 

Anonymous, No Location Given

I work for an organization that provides weekly safe spaces for queer youth and I can tell you they are fabulous and will change this world for the better. 

Jim Johnson, (he, him), Illinois

Strength and Resilience of Queer and Bi+ People

People finding their way. Me finding ways to legitimately incorporate all of me into my marriage, into my friendships, into my life. The continual movement away from giving a shit what anyone thinks or says.

Anonymous, (she, her), No Location Given

I think many people are thinking about sexuality in less black and white ways, allowing for bi+ people to be more visible and affirmed.

E.C., (she, her), No Location Given

That as poll after poll shows weakening support for LGBTQ rights, we rise up. We are finding ourselves and we are starting to realize it’s never too late to come out and to be ourselves. We have always been here and we are not going away. We do it quietly and we do it loudly. 

E.D.H., (they, them), No Location Given

That there is so much beauty in the world and our community is so vocal in highlighting all that beauty.

Alex D., (she, her), Oregon

Our role historically as bridge builders. As the world gets ugly, we have yet another chance to advocate for the people we love and the freedoms we know in our hearts to be vital. 

Sean, (he, him), Canada

More Representation in the Media

The younger generation’s attitude towards bisexuality, seeing bi+ men on television in mainstream series’(!!!)

Anonymous, (she, her), No Location Given

The TV shows showing what it is like to be bi in a positive light: Heated Rivalry and Heartstopper. The fact that it seems to be more accepted.

Brynn, (she, her), New York

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Thanks to all of those who have responded to the Bi+ Joy Survey. Your responses, optimism, and resistance have given us hope and have reminded us that a vital part of Pride is that we are not alone. We are part of a community of strong and beautiful people.

If you want to stay connected to Bi+ community, here are a few places to start: