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Majority rule.
Over the weekend (Pride weekend), The New York Times Opinion section ran an essay titled “As A Gay Man, I’ll Never Be Normal,” which, interestingly enough, was written by a one time colleague of mine (not that that has any bearing on anything that follows). The essay was, shall we say, controversial amongst some of the queers, which I suppose is…
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Erasure in action.
A few months ago, I made decision to start going to Shabbat services at my synagogue more regularly. I can’t recall what sparked that desire — maybe it was that I was feeling lonely and Shabbat services felt like a way to connect more deeply with community? — but in the wake of losing my…
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I don’t need an apology from Carrie Bradshaw.
As I’m writing this, the first episode of the second season of And Just Like That…, aka the Sex and the City reboot, is playing on my TV in the background. I wasn’t originally planning on watching this season — I absolutely hated the first season of And Just Like That…, and not in the fun way that I…
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Grief amidst Pride.
It has been strange, these past few weeks, to be overtaken by such a deep and powerful grief during a month many of us have come to associate with raucous partying and joyful displays and, of course, endless hook ups. What an odd feeling, to be wracked with grief during a month of queer love,…
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About my dad.
If you are new to this newsletter, what follows is a break from what I usually write, because my life has broken apart over the past few weeks. For everyone else; an explanation: On May 22, my parents left their home in Brooklyn to set off on a vacation in Toronto. They stopped for one…
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Some things that I believe.
We are (almost) halfway through Pride Month, and I have been writing this newsletter — which I started on a whim on Bisexual Visibility Day 2022 — for about eight and a half months, and somehow I have 1300 subscribers, so it feels like a good time to give you all a brief recap of…
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