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What does it mean to be Bisexual?
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Of the four primary groups that make up the LGBT acronym, bisexuality traditionally is the most overlooked due to its perceived adjacency to heterosexuality. On the flip-side, their adjacency to queerness have made them outcasts throughout history amongst the straight community. Ultimately however, bisexuality represents the queer ideal of complicating traditional perceptions of how sexuality is expected to exist, allowing for a person to love whomever they love regardless of societal expectations placed on them.
Bisexuality is defined as the experience of loving both people of the same gender and others. Another similar but different sexuality, pansexuality, describes the experience of loving people in spite of their gender. Both Bi- and Pan- sexuality can include trans and nonbinary people, depending on the person.
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Bi Space
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Bisexuality tends to be dismissed as either; a stepping stone to coming out as gay, people seeking attention without intent to act on their bisexuality, or selfish people taking more than they should—as if love were a zero sum game. All of these are inaccurate and, even if they are true in specific cases, they can not speak to the broader experience of bisexuality. Bi people, like anyone else in the queer community, are not a monolith and there is no one right way to be bi. The nature of queerness in Identity also means that labels are inherently fluid and as a result sometimes a person might feel as if bisexuality is an effective word for explaining their experience, and sometimes, that might change.
Bi-sexual people aren't a perfectly divided split experiencing attraction to all genders equally, sometimes a bi person might only be attracted to one or two people of a certain gender, that does not invalidate their experience. A helpful tool for some people in explaining their sexuality is the Kinsey scale, named after an American sexologist from the twentieth century.
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