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Is TV just better for bisexuality?
A site I have never heard of (Mamba Online? Do you know it?) has an essay on media representation that poses an interesting question: is the representation of bisexuality better on television than in film? You can read the essay if you want (I didn’t find it that well written, but you may disagree), but…
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Silent acceptance?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been rewatching one of my all time favorite non-Star Trek shows, the British teen superhero dramedy Misfits. If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching Misfits (it’s available on Hulu in the US and… somewhere else in other countries, probably), it can roughly be summed up as “what if…
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Do you want the Census Bureau to know you’re bi?
So this is interesting: according to the Associated Press, the Census Bureau is currently considering adding some questions about sexuality and gender identity to the American Community Survey — and, if I’m reading the piece right, possibly to the 2030 census as well. There is a part of me — the part that loves data…
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I ate the bisexual Oreos for science
At some point in my life, for reasons I do not fully comprehend, I got added to the Oreos marketing mailing list. Most of the time this just means I get emails alerting me to the fact that, if I am so inclined, I can buy a box of Oreos that’s got my picture on…
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Dear Abby was wrong (and I was right)
Hey, remember back in December when Dear Abby wrote a horribly biphobic response to a letter about a woman who got dumped right before her wedding because she was bi, and whose parents were… being supremely shitty about it? Well, I remember. And it would seem that I am not the only person who that…
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All for all
Periodically — like this past weekend — I will see someone share some early (read: pre-1990s/1980s maybe?) news coverage of a trans person (and probably a trans woman) noting with awe that — contrary to the common perception that in the bad and terrible past, trans people were automatically treated with disgust — the coverage…
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