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My grand defense of Chasing Amy.
1997 was a big year for bi history: I came out, and so did the movie Chasing Amy. Though I’d never seen a Kevin Smith film — I didn’t know anything about him, or Jay and Silent Bob, or any of it — I knew from the moment I read about Chasing Amy that I absolutely had to…
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What if everything you know about bisexual relationships is wrong?
The other day I had a stray thought about married bisexuals. Specifically, I started to wonder if bisexuals actually are more likely to get married than the rest of our queer peers — you know, now that marriage equality is the law of the land and all. Is this idea of the privileged, married bisexual a holdover…
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Think bigger.
As I have mentioned several times before, I’m a routine lurker (and very infrequent poster) on Lex, a queer text-based dating app that I have a love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with. I could talk a lot about Lex (and often do!), but that’s not really the point of this newsletter. The reason I bring Lex up is…
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The Bisexual Pick Me
A few years ago, when I was still struggling with some bisexual shame, I did a little thread about some of those kinds of bisexuals. The embarrassing ones, the ones who are basically straight but constantly trying to get attention for themselves. You know who I mean. The kind of bisexuals that so many of us desperately…
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Breaking the bi-nary. (Guest Essay)
Hey folks! Super excited to be able to share this guest essay by A.L. Want to to submit your own essay to the B+ Squad? Shoot me an email! – Lux A major, familiar headache for queer folks is hearing that our identities are short-lived and designed to obscure deeper truth, and bisexuals aren’t exempt…
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Safe for who?
When I was eighteen, I began dating a man four years older than me. The relationship progressed quickly: within days, he was calling himself my boyfriend, within months, we were living together. And when it all ended after three years and three months, it finally dawned on me that this man — my first serious…
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