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I hate what happened to our community. I am here for more than 10 years and we used to be more united despite our differences. Intracommunity issues always existed but there was way more solidarity than it is now.

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LUCKY Raveena (2024), dir. Isha Dipika Walia

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Kate Herron

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: Born 1987

Ethnicity: White - British

Occupation: Director, screenwriter, producer

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people will really have blogs where every second post is about how much they hate bisexuals and how bisexuality is inherently wrong and then be like now why would anyone think theres prejudice against bisexuals

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I wrote this comic many years ago, when coming out seemed so far away. Though I know people meant well, it frustrated me to hear “no need to tell anyone, it’s none of their business!” A part of me even shamefully resented those who were accepted so easily, because I knew I could never have that life.

Even though I’ve come out already, I still want this perspective to be heard. It can be really isolating and painful to have to choose between your safety and your identity.

This comic is from my collection We Are Here: And Other Queer Comics, available this weekend at MICE 2024.

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i take being a girl gentleman very seriously never forget that

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some of you project your internalized madonna/whore complex on to bi women and it shows

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“I am not bisexual. But like a fair number of lesbians, I started my coming out story identifying as one… I owe a debt of gratitude to the bisexual community for having tried on their label… Initially identifying as bisexual helped me in my first baby steps toward becoming more myself.”

- Viola Orson, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

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OHMY GOD SO I JUAT PLAYED AKINATOR AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM GUESS HIMSELF BUT HE KEPT ASKING IF THE PERSON I WAS THINKING OF WAS GAY AND HAD A BOYFRIEND AND I JUST KEPT PRESSING YES AND THEN

LOOK AT HIS SMUG FACE

AKINATORS BOYFRIEND

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All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

Here's to all the shockingly single bachelor uncles or the two very close friends who just happened to be girls and are only living together until one of them finds a man (they lived together for forty two years).

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despite everything.

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being in love with the process and not the results is one of the healthiest things in the world

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Alice Dunbar Nelson (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 19 July 1875

RIP: 18 September 1935

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Poet, journalist, activist

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Cassandra Peterson and her alter ego, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, 1980s

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“Because of our cultural erasure, bisexuality tends to be invisible except as a point of conflict. Given that studies reveal that only a small percentage of bisexuals are simultaneously involved with persons of both genders (Rust, 1991) and that we tend to assume that a person's sexual orientation corresponds to the sex of his or her current partner, it is difficult to make our bisexuality visible in daily life. As a result, most people usually "see" bisexuality only in the context of uncomfortable situations: a closeted married man contracts HIV from sex with another man and his wife contracts the virus; a woman leaves her lesbian relationship for a male lover. Often, when bisexuality is given attention, it is portrayed as a transitional category, an interim stage in an original or subsequent coming-out process, usually from heterosexual to homosexual. This has the effect of associating bisexuality in many people's minds with conflict and impermanence.

The word bisexual itself may be seen as a product of binary thinking and, therefore, problematic. Many people struggling to understand bisexuality can only imagine the concept as a 50-50 identity. In their minds, if a third category exists, then it must fall midway between the other two categories and have clearly defined, unchanging parameters. Using this measurement, they will find very few "true” bisexuals. Many people also assume that a bisexual must need a lover of each sex to be satisfied, raising the specter of non-monogamy, another hot button for many.”

- Robyn Ochs, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World