“A “conflict model” of bisexuality (in research circles, in researchers’ minds) assumes that homosexual interests eradicate heterosexual responsiveness - that they can’t exist peacefully side by side. But this isn’t true for a significant number of people.”
- Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka’ahumanu, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
“Many of us feel threatened when the categories we believe in are challenged, especially if they shape our sense of who we are. Not only do bisexuals contradict a primary set of cultural categories - our culture calls us “decadent” because we refuse to play by the rules, thereby undermining the social “order” - but we challenge many people’s personal sense of what constitutes sexual identity. Whether we threaten by introducing a third category or by undermining the notion of categories altogether, we cause enough discomfort that many people deny our existence.”
- Lisa Orlando, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
“People think married bisexuals can vanish within the heterosexual community any time we choose, and to a certain extent this is true, but only at the cost of burying our true selves. Many people can ‘pass as normal’, but this can cause more distress than satisfaction.”
- Felicity Cade, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives
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Photography by Jácint Halász