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Fear of a bisexual woman
My inbox continues to be filled with — often panicked, often right wing — reactions to Gallup’s (honestly really predictable, given trends of the past few years) report about an increasingly LGBTQ, and more specifically, increasingly bisexual America. I’m not going to link to any of them — why would I clutter your brain space…
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If lying about being bisexual were all it took to be cool, everyone would be doing it
So I’m still thinking about the latest Gallup report on American queer identity, and specifically the repeatedly cited stat that nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as some kind of queer — and over 20% of Gen Z women identify as bisexual specifically. If you are masochistic enough to pore through all the coverage…
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The coming collision
Every year around this time, Gallup releases the results of its annual report on sexual and gender identity in the US; a report it first started doing in 2012*. And in the time that I personally started paying attention to this annual event, it has always been accompanied by a flurry of press noting that…
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By any other name
So there is this Instagram glitch where sometimes, when someone texts you a link to a reel, clicking the link does not bring you to the reel they were linking to, but instead just randomly pulls up a totally different reel — and I mean completely randomly, like, every time you click the link, it…
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And then there were zero
It feels strange to say this, but it was only five years ago that America had a historic number of openly bisexual members of Congress. Yes, that historic number was two, and yes, they were both blond cis women who’d mostly been romantically linked to men. It was an imperfect win, but it felt like…
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The youth are not the only bisexual voice
As you may have heard, the youngs are very bisexual: with every generation, it seems like more and more people are openly bi. Add to this the fact that with age tends to come monogamous marriage — not always, but that is a general trend — and with it the baggage of the dreaded bisexual…
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