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But we are bound by more than our trauma.
If you’ve spent any amount of time in queer spaces, you are likely aware of the affection sometimes bordering on obsession that many queers have for astrology. This notion that queers love astrology is so ingrained into people’s understanding of queer identity that the dating app Lex just defaults to showing users’ star signs without even asking,…
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A diagnosis of exclusion.
Earlier this year, on a hot August day, I experienced my first (and, thankfully, only) ocular migraine. It came on suddenly, hitting me as I stepped outside of my apartment: an intense pressure in my temples, and then my vision collapsing into a small circle on the right side, with everything else a sea of…
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Escape the West
It is a truth often cited in LGBTQ spaces that queer and trans people have existed throughout history and around the globe, that wherever you go, there we are. And whenever I hear that statement I want to say, “Yes, but with an asterisk.” Because while it is definitely true that there have always been…
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Okay we gotta talk about marriage for a second.
So, as I’m sure you all know, earlier this week President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law. And, you know, great! That’s definitely a good thing; it’s wonderful that the Defense of Marriage Act has been consigned to the trash bin, and that married queers don’t have to worry about losing their…
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Tap dancing until the end of time.
There’s this experience that feels common to being a marginalized person, an experience of performance when you are in a space among people who are not like you. I think of it as tap dancing: this demand that you put on a show, that you prove you fit in, that you explain your lifestyle and worldview, that…
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Please just let us be chill.
I’ve mentioned this before, but: if you want to depress yourself, a great way to do that is by setting up a Google alert for terms like “bisexual” and “bisexuality.” The stories that come through are mostly dreck; dumb explainers about bi vs pan or advice columns about dating a bisexual and, of course, the…
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