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Bisex Bi
Medically Reviewed by Dan Brennan, MD on June 28, 2021
Bisexuality is an attraction to more than one gender. Those who identify as bisexual feel a sexual and/or romantic attraction to people of a different gender as well as their own.
While this offers a basic definition, bisexual people are a diverse group. Each individual perceives their sexual orientation differently. Some may be equally attracted to both men and women, while others have a stronger attraction toward one gender over another.
A bisexual person may be in a long-term same-sex or heterosexual relationship, or they may alternate between the two.
Bisexuality is often confused with pansexuality, which is when someone is attracted to all genders, including cisgender, transgender, agender, non-binary, and other gender non-conforming individuals.
These definitions may seem very similar, but there is a distinct difference. Bisexual means attracted to multiple genders, while pansexual means attracted to all genders.
For many in the LGBTQ community, these terms may overlap. Some people may identify as bisexual but still feel an attraction for all genders. Identifying as bisexual versus pansexual mainly comes down to the preference of the individual.
Bisexual people often face misconceptions about their identity. These misconceptions can lead to prejudice, known as biphobia. It can happen within or outside the LGBTQ community.
Myth: Bisexual people date only cisgender men or women.
While the prefix “bi” may literally mean two, bisexuality does not mean attraction to only two genders. For many bisexual people, the “bi” indicates an attraction to their same gender as well as other genders.
Myth: Bisexual people are confused or in denial.
One pervasive misunderstanding about bisexuality is that it’s a phase — and that bisexual people will eventually come out as gay or lesbian. But bisexuality is not transitional or experimental. It is a valid identity.
One study found that only 18% of LGBTQ youth who initially came out as bisexual later came out as gay or lesbian. So while some may come out as bisexual first before identifying as gay or lesbian, this doesn’t mean that bisexual identities aren’t valid.
Myth: Bisexual people are more likely to cheat.
Sexual preference is not linked to promiscuity. There’s no evidence that bisexual people are more likely to cheat on their partners than people of any other sexual orientation.
Men can be bisexual , too. But they may be less likely to be open about it. In one study, only 12% of bisexual men said they were openly bisexual, compared to 28% of all bisexuals and 77% of gay men. The survey found that this disparity may stem from the fact that 33% of respondents perceived social acceptance of bisexual women, while only 8% said the same for bisexual men.
While there may appear to be fewer bisexual men than women, this may be due to the social stigma around coming out as a bisexual man.
Due to some of the myths about bisexuality, it can be challenging to come out to family, friends, or a partner as bisexual. You don’t have to tell anyone about your sexual orientation unless you are ready. But some people find that having a conversation with loved ones about it is helpful.
If you decide to tell others, your friends and family members may have a lot of questions after you come out to them. It may help to put together a few online resources about bisexuality that you can share. This will help answer their questions, fight any misconceptions they’ve heard about bisexuality, and will take some of the burden of explanation off of you.
Bisexual Resource Center: "Pan and Bi: A Handy Guide."
Journal of Bisexuality : “‘Regardless of Their Gender’: Descriptions of Sexual Identity among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Identified Individuals.”
Journal of Sex Research : "Sexual Identity Development among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths: Consistency and Change Over Time."
Pew Research Center: "Among LGBT Americans, bisexuals stand out when it comes to identity, acceptance."
PLoS One : "Attitudes toward Bisexual Men and Women among a Nationally Representative Probability Sample of Adults in the United States."
UCLA School of Law Williams Institute: "How Many People are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender?"
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The first step in fixing these disparities is understanding why they occur, experts said.
Bisexual people experience discrimination from both in and beyond the queer community — creating what the psychologist Ethan Mereish called “a double closet.” This can discourage bisexual people from coming out, in part because they may worry they won’t find a welcoming community.
A study from 2019 suggested that a major form of discrimination against bisexual people is “identity invalidation” — or the idea that your sexuality is not valid, or is ignored. The study found that much of this discrimination often comes from gay and lesbian people, followed by family members and straight people, and that it can directly affect bisexual people’s mental health, including contributing to depression, stress and exacerbated or triggered anxiety.
If you are bisexual — and especially if you are bisexual and in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender — your sexual identity may not be obvious to the outside world, Dr. Mereish said.
“There’s this stress of having to decide, is this interaction worth me coming out?” Dr. Mereish said. It can be “a psychologically taxing process.”
Creating a sense of community can help buffer against these strains on mental health, researchers said.
The Bisexual Resource Center, a nonprofit that connects bisexual organizations and people worldwide, maintains a list of online and in-person support groups for bisexual people.
The Trevor Project , an organization devoted to preventing suicide among L.G.B.T.Q. young people, also offers crisis hotlines and text lines.

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The report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute also found that bisexual men suffered more workplace discrimination than bisexual women.
A new study has found bisexuals reported experiencing less workplace discrimination than their gay and lesbian counterparts, although the findings suggest the disparity may be the result of fewer bisexuals being out at work.
The report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute, entitled “The Role of Sexual Orientation and Gender in Workplace Experiences of Cisgender LGB Employees” surveyed 935 LGB adults about their workplace experiences.
The key findings of the report showed that significantly fewer bisexuals were out to their supervisors or coworkers than gays and lesbians. Only 36 percent of cisgender bisexual employees reported being out to their supervisors and only 19 percent reported being out to all their coworkers. Fully half of gays and lesbians, for comparison, were out to their coworkers, and 75 percent reported being out to their supervisors as well.
The report suggests these numbers influenced reported experiences of workplace discrimination. For example, 10 percent more gay and lesbian workers reported discrimination in the workplace than their bisexual counterparts, 34 percent to 24 percent respectively. However, that number narrowed among out gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers, with 33 percent of out bisexual workers reporting discrimination compared to 37 percent of out gay and lesbian workers.
The report also found that bisexual men suffered more workplace discrimination than bisexual women. Of those surveyed, 46 percent of bisexual men reported being fired or not hired due to their sexual identity, while only 27 percent of bisexual women reported similar experiences. Overall, 60 percent of bisexual men reported instances of workplace harassment over their careers, compared to only 38 percent of bisexual women. The report concluded the data suggested that the overall younger average age of female participants in the survey compared to their male counterparts provided less opportunity over the lifetime of their careers to experience discrimination in the workplace.
The report included several quotes from participants in the study, documenting the extent and brazen nature of the types of discrimination faced by gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers. These included use of anti-gay slurs and rhetoric.
“I was called the f-slur and often referenced as ‘fruity’ or ‘soy boy’ as a grown man. I was not promoted because I did not have a female partner,” said a Black cisgender bisexual man from Virginia.
Some reported extortion and outing the person to their coworkers.
“My boss threatened to tell my coworkers I was bi if I didn't work weekends,” a Latinx cisgender bisexual man from New Hampshire said.
Others reported being fired after they came out.
“I was…working for a small-town local insurance company. The woman I worked with and I were having a casual conversation and she made a discriminatory remark about homosexuals. I told her that I was bisexual, and she cut the conversation off instantly. Within two days, the owner fired me because he said he was ‘looking to go in a different direction,’” said a White cisgender bisexual woman from Kentucky.
Some reported the discrimination was based on the abuser’s religion.
“I was told I was going to hell during a job interview for liking women,” said a White cisgender bisexual woman from Michigan.
The report used an anonymous cross-sectional survey conducted between May 5-16, 2021 with U.S. sexual and gender minority adults ages 18 and up who were in the workforce the week of March 1, 2020.
Read the executive summary and highlights here and the full report in pdf form here .
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#BiWeek is officially in full swing, and although we've come a long way in years past, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in order for bisexual people to feel fully and wholly accepted as a part of society and the LGBTQ+ community ( bi erasure, especially against men , is, unfortunately, still a thing y'all). Lucky for us, plenty of folks in the highly visible entertainment industry have decided to share their truths with the world and are helping make it easier for everyone, especially other bi folks, to be their most authentic selves!
In honor of the start of Bisexual Awareness Week, here are 8 bi celebs who came out this year and who are helping to make the world a more open and accepting place!
"Growing up I always thought maybe a little bit bi-curious. And I’ve only ever dated straight people, but growing up I did have crushes on girls that I went to school with," she told one of her castmates at the time. "Before I came here [on the show], I was out at a party and I met a girl and we ended up hooking up. It just felt natural."
The singer-songwriter and The Voice alum (who won the eighth season of NBC's reality singing competition in 2015 while competing for Team Pharrell) opened about his sexuality in a February Instagram post where he came out as bisexual.
"Since I have not publicly said this in a post, I wanted say that I am bisexual," Fredericks wrote at the time. "When I was younger I thought I was straight, because I was more attracted to women, and I didn’t know there were more options besides gay and straight. So I just assumed I was straight. I am privileged and have never been discriminated against for my sexuality or ashamed of it. I’m truly sorry for any of you who have been, and I hope it gets better."
"I’ll probably lose some fans over this post, but that’s fine with me."
"I’m bisexual," he captioned the post simply. "I like guys and girls. It’s [whatever]."
In an April tweet, the popular Survivor contestant and OnlyFans star publicly came out as bisexual while sending a strong message to his conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican colleagues and followers.
"For my Republican colleagues, and anyone else who matters, yeah, I’m bisexual," he wrote. "Am I committing crimes?? If so come get me. Let us ALL live with dignity. Ask yourself if you support people or the fucked dogma you’ve been fed. #ozzyisbi."
Photo: Instagram ( @ozcardagrouch )
One of the stars of Netflix's reality dating series The Ultimatum , Williams publicly came out as bisexual in April during the show's reunion special.
"I have been with one person...she’s amazing. I had a really good connection with her but we kept it casual and I’m kind of figuring out myself and my sexuality, because I was very uncomfortable with being bi for a very long time," she told hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey. "Since Zay [her The Ultimatum costar] and I have been done, I’ve just been with one girl, and it’s kind of been great, honestly."
The Oscar-nominated King Richard actress had long been out as bisexual to her friends and coworkers, but it was when she went to the 2022 Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards that she first commented on her sexuality publicly. She did so by having the word “Queer” emblazoned on her Dolce & Gabanna suit jacket in rhinestones on her left arm.
However, despite the statement, not very many people caught onto her coming out.
“I was thinking, ‘Why didn’t more people pay attention to that?’ And I was like, ‘They probably thought it said ‘Queen,’” she told Variety in June . “It wasn’t that I was expecting any sort of major reaction or anything like that. One of my family members noticed, but nobody else did.”
According to Ellis, that family member already knew she was bi, but felt “hurt” that she would express her sexuality so publicly.
“I am a work in progress, and my family and my community are works in progress,” she said. “I really believe that that is important to say because I’m not alone. We see people on the other side of it, where everybody’s good and fine: ‘Love is love.’”
Elizabeth Corrigan, who is best known for being a contestant on The Bachelor ’s 26th season earlier this year publicly came out as bisexual in June after attending her first Pride in New York City.
“It’s hard to know the right way to say these things, or the right time. Today seems like both and neither,” she wrote on Instagram. “Am I ready? No. Am I scared? Yes. Will the ‘right time’ come? Qualify it.”
“It’s important to me today to share with you all that I am queer. More specifically I am, always have been, and always will be—bisexual.”
Photo: Instagram ( @elizabethccorrigan )
In an August interview with The Adam Sank Show podcast , the American Idol alum opened up about his bisexuality, and how he used to have to deny that part of himself in years past.
"At the time, I did not not know, which was why it was so weird for me," he said. "I was raised by women, I was in theater, I had a hard time figuring out how to interact with young boys."
"Everyone [kept] telling me that I’m gay, and I’m like, seven. I’m like, I don’t even have any attraction to anyone, so why are you telling me this? At this point, I don’t care what people know of my sexuality."

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