Being Bisexual: The Invisible Sexuality

Many accounts of the loneliness and invisibility of being bisexual have been shared, yet have received very limited attention.

• While most people are probably familiar with the term “bisexual”, knowledge about this type of sexuality appears to be astonishingly scarce in the population.
• Surveys suggest that there are at least as many bi and pansexual people globally as gay people, but for some reason, most people probably couldn’t name a person they know who is bisexual.
• Already back in 1998, Michael Page thought it necessary to design the tricolor bisexual pride flag to give the bisexual community its symbol and more visibility.
• Society’s tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia and other realms is well-documented.
• In its most extreme form, this can amount to the belief that bisexuality itself does not exist, a notion referred to as bisexual erasure.
• There is an astonishing amount of stubborn misconceptions about bisexuality, such as the assumption that bisexuals are merely ‘confused’ and will eventually settle for either hetero- or homosexuality.