“Issues of shame pervade the difficulties bisexuals face in attempting to form a positive, well-integrated bisexual identity. Because an individual member of an oppressed group is frequently seen as representative of all the members of that group, a bisexual-identified person may feel a sense of shame when any bisexual person behaves in such a way as to reinforce negative stereotypes of bisexual people. Furthermore, a bisexual individual may feel a profound sense of shame when her own behavior happens to mirror one of the existing stereotypes… Individuals in such situations may feel that they are in some way betraying their entire identity group. Although some bisexual people do behave in ways that conform to negative stereotypes about bisexuals, it is actually the dynamics of prejudice that cause others to use such actions to justify their stereotyping and prejudicial behavior.”
- Robyn Ochs, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority
“Despite the almost crushing weight of my family’s and society’s requirements, the one thing I have never felt is heterosexual.”
- Sharon, Bisexual Lives
Ariel Rebel and Nikita Bellucci
Under me you’re not a person anymore you’re just an object to be used and stored for my pleasure
“While my feelings of sexual attraction toward a man may or may not occur concurrently with feelings of attraction for a woman, I recognize that those sexual and emotional feelings don’t belong to different “selves” (a homosexual self and a heterosexual self) but rather to my one, evolving self.”
- Ann Fox, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out