Bialogue: Bi/Pan+Queer Politics: The monosexual privilege checklist→
- Society assures me that my sexual identity is real and that people like me exist.
- When disclosing my sexual identity to others, they believe it without requiring me to prove it.
- I can feel sure that upon disclosing my sexual identity, people accept that it’s my real/actual sexual identity…
(Source: radicalbi.wordpress.com)
An example of biphobia in popular media, from an episode of the popular series “Sex and the City.” ”That whole generation is all about sexual experimentation,” Samantha says. ”All the kids are going bi;” this is her writing off of an entire orientation.
Miguel Obradors on biphobia in society
I am Visible - Bisexual campaign!→
Now to put the spot light on our own situation!
Olivia Thirlby on Being Bisexual and Participating in the Self Evident Truths Project for Brooklyn Magazine
Actress Olivia Thirlby, who’s costarred in Juno and HBO’s Bored to Death, graces the cover of Brooklyn Magazine and in an interview discusses being bisexual and participating in photographer iO Tillett Wright’s Self Evident Truths project, according to After Ellen.
Thirlby has never been in the closet but the Brooklyn Magazine interview marks the first time she’s publicly discussed her sexuality, reports AE. iO shot Thirlby’s Brooklyn Magazine cover.
“The concept behind Self Evident Truths is simple; it’s impossible to deny the humanity in a face. We are all human, we all have hearts and emotions and eyes that speak to them, whether we’re gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, black, white, latino, asian… You get the picture,” according to the Self Evident Truths website.
Thirlby, who was once attached to the lesbian werewolf flick Jack and Diane along with Juno’s star Ellen Page, explains in the Brooklyn Mag interview why she felt it was important to participate in the project:
“For me personally, it’s important to be a part of this because I feel it’s a way of me showing gratitude that I live surrounded by a community in which I don’t have to hide my sexual orientation. And no one should have to hide their sexual orientation. Loving people is a necessary part of being human, and it is very difficult to love people in secret. It’s a horrible thing to force people to do. And I am not one hundred percent straight.”
(Source: shewired.com)
Change.org discusses the (in)visibility of Bisexuals→
Change.org’s writer Daniel Vivacqua makes a call for action: “ The LG and T community need to make more of an effort to support the B’s among us. Being bisexual doesn’t mean being selfish or sitting on the fence, it means being brave enough to live in the gray space.”
(via bialogue-group)
Here is how to tell if you are bisexual. Think about all the people you have had a genuine attraction to over your lifetime. If they are of more than one gender/gender expression then Congratulations! You too are bisexual.
(Source: switchyfemme, via bialogue-group)
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One stereotype about bisexuals is that our bisexuality is a phase, and that later, we’ll come out as something else. In fact, research shows the opposite; monosexuality is more likely to be a phase than bisexuality.
Think, for example, of all the people you know who once identified as straight and now identify as gay or lesbian. Obviously, their use of the term “straight” to identify themselves was a phase.
” from “Dear Advocate, That’s No Way to Treat a Lady” by Amy Andre in The Bilerico Project, July 10, 2011 5:30 PM (via bialogue-group)
