Bisexual

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the Bisexual Pride flag
Bisexual means having sexual attraction towards both male and female sexes [1].

The Kinsey Scale ranks people on a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. People ranked from 2 to 4 are often classed as bisexual,[2] while the range from 1 to 5 is more commonly recognised by bisexual advocates and organisations [3].

In 2024 Cardiff City Ladies FC footballer Lailah Muscat, said coming out as bisexual was a difficult process [4].

Bi History Resources

  • Bi History and Bisexual History use twitter with bisexual history information [5].
  • Wikipedia has a history page predominantly about bi history in the USA.
  • BiPhoria publishes a bi history timeline on their website.
  • Jen Yockney's publication "Getting Bi In A Gay/Straight World" has a 3 page bisexual history timeline.
National Bisexual Conference 1993 (Hall Carpenter Archives LSE)



References

  1. pansexual is defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity
  2. Mike Szymanski, "Moving Closer to the Middle: Kinsey the Movie, and Its Rocky Road to Bisexual Acceptance." Journal of Bisexuality 8.3 (2008): 287-308
  3. BiPhoria, "Getting Bi In A Gay / Straight World (2011): 14
  4. As a bisexual, there's no-one you can really relate to BBC article https://www.bbc.co.uk/articles/c88z6ggdyjpo (Accessed 8 June 2024)
  5. @BisexualHistory @Bihistory are the handles for the twitter accounts (as Sept 23 2022)