“This Culture Is Not Only Heterosexist, Homophobic, And Biphobic, It Is Thunderously Sex-phobic, And

“I see bisexuals as the wanderers, because we can traverse the ground of the female world and also of the male world. Being able to do that allows us to glean from both of those gendered experiences… We traverse wide territories, allowing for the depth of exploration that doesn’t exist when you stay in one place. That has both its stresses and its benefits. When you traverse a large ground, you get the depth of the experience, but a certain lack of security.”

- Lilith Finkler, Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities

“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

Under me you’re not a person anymore you’re just an object to be used and stored for my pleasure

“Students also felt they needed to hide their bisexual identities in order to remain engaged in LGBTQ* campus spaces… Some students noted they didn’t even openly identify as bisexual within LGBTQ* campus spaces. They often felt more comfortable identifying as gay, lesbian, or queer instead of bisexual. Ashlynn falsely identified as a lesbian rather than bisexual in order to ‘avoid the additional stigma’. Similarly, Jeremiah and Sierra felt that openly identifying as gay and queer, respectively, was much easier than identifying as bisexual. Other students, like Rylee, chose to not identify as anything, avoiding disclosing their sexuality entirely, choosing not to answer questions about their sexuality, and not correcting inaccurate assumptions about their sexuality.”

- Jayna Tavarez, The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, Further original narratives and essays about bisexuality

Photography by Jácint Halász