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The revolution will not be individual.
Though I have not been paying much attention to online discourses and discussions as of late, I did happen to notice that yesterday asexuality and aphobia seemed to be taking center stage in a relatively predictable way — some allosexuals were demanding to know how aces are oppressed, and some aces were detailing the ways…
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Not even First Ladies can escape biphobia.
For 8 years — from 2014 to 2022 — Bill de Blasio was the mayor of New York City. And for those 8 years, his wife and the First Lady of New York City was Chirlane McCray. The two of them made a striking pair: she’s Black, he’s white. She’s short, he’s freakishly tall. She…
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On mean comments.
I spent the majority of Pride Month checked out from any online discourse due to, you know, my dad dying, so I wouldn’t say that I was particularly on top of the various biphobic microaggressions that bubbled up on the various social media sites people hang out on these days. But I did see some…
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In spite of it all, we are still here.
This morning I logged on to my computer and opened up a video chat session with my therapist — the therapist who successfully diagnosed and treated my OCD a little over five years ago, the therapist I went back to back in March when I felt isolated and incapable of seeking emotional support from anyone…
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It’s been three years.
Three years ago — about three months into a world disrupting pandemic, and right at the end of a month of an entirely virtual celebration of Pride — I found myself crying in my kitchen. I’d been mentally drafting a Twitter thread, I think something about feeling rejected and ostracized in queer spaces, when I…
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We all stood together at Stonewall.
This morning, while idly scrolling through my Bluesky feed (yes I am one of the privileged few to have made it into the Bluesky beta), I accidentally clinked on a link to a Kevin M. Kruse essay commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The bulk of Kruse’s piece is not actually about Stonewall — it’s…
The B+ Squad
A website for the modern bisexual.
A website for the modern bisexual.
In the fall of 2023, I noticed something strange. After a flurry of interest of interest in bisexuality — packages devoted to Bisexual Awareness Week, article after article about how biphobia was real and the bisexuals were, in fact, struggling — Bisexual Awareness Week had once again descended upon us and there was… nothing. No dedicated weeks on any of my favorite sites. No essays rehashing old and new bisexual gripes. Even the pitches I sent in about bisexuality generated little to no interest from editors.
It seemed that the media world was just… done with bisexuals.
And as a frustrated bisexual with a lot of things to say, I decided to do what every writer was doing: I started a newsletter about bisexuality. Welcome to The B+ Squad.
All essays I’ve written on bisexuality — including ones from the project’s Substack era — are on this site. If you’d like to support the project (and get bonuses for yourself, including early access to essays), you can check out my Patreon.
Lux Alptraum
Writer & Journalist