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But I am not like *those* bisexuals
There is an exercise that virtually every bisexual has engaged in at one point in time, this declaration that insists that while, yes, we are in fact bisexual, we are not like those other bisexuals. You know the ones I mean, the ones we all, at one point or another, attempt to disavow: the white girls
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What Is Bi Visibility To A Bisexual?
Let’s begin at the beginning: I first came out as bisexual over a quarter of a century ago, back in the 1900s (1997, to be exact). It was two years after Time’s now infamous bisexuality cover story (not that I knew that when I was fourteen) and a few months before the release of Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy (a
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