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I’m Bisexual

kawaiiotakuu:

Reblog if you’re bisexual :)

[USA]: Bisexual in Indiana?

bisexual-community:

A new group has been formed for All Bisexual People from Indiana. So All Hoosiers please click the link and join up.

“The bisexual community in general has long been willing to remain invisible, and while this may make an individual life easier, it does nothing to help young bisexuals who are bullied in schools, and judged even as adults when they choose to not fit into societal norms.

This page is intended to help educate, fight for visibility, and join in as an active voice to greater LGBT issues, the B needs to fight for equality within and outside the LGBT community.”

Source: bisexual-community

zazzle.com, Bi-Quad Posters Bi-Quad “As someone who is both disabled and bisexual, this artist’s piece is a testament to the importance of being out. Here the International Symbol of Access, the standard marker of accessibility for the disabled, is reconfigured from its standard blue and white pattern with the magenta, lavender and blue of the bisexual pride flag. Bisexuality and disability are both sources of continual scrutiny in a society where both are depicted as abnormal. This piece reflects the power that being out can provide bisexuals and people with disabilities to push back against others who try to define their reality in a way that denies the importance and validity of their experiences.” ~ Jack Mohr Product id: 228544326512078247 Made on 10/17/2009 12:12 PM
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zazzle.com, Bi-Quad Posters

Bi-Quad

“As someone who is both disabled and bisexual, this artist’s piece is a testament to the importance of being out. Here the International Symbol of Access, the standard marker of accessibility for the disabled, is reconfigured from its standard blue and white pattern with the magenta, lavender and blue of the bisexual pride flag. Bisexuality and disability are both sources of continual scrutiny in a society where both are depicted as abnormal. This piece reflects the power that being out can provide bisexuals and people with disabilities to push back against others who try to define their reality in a way that denies the importance and validity of their experiences.” ~ Jack Mohr

Product id: 228544326512078247
Made on 10/17/2009 12:12 PM

bialogue-group: Straight Privilege? Really? Who here actually ARE the people with ‘privilege’? Please point out all the bisexual people in the photo exhibiting ‘typical’ examples of ‘straight privilege’. Now please point out who in the photo are people who actually HAVE ‘privilege’. Oh they happen to be a couple of wealthy and powerful gay men? Oh? So maybe that old cliche some people like to winge on and on (and on and on) about that “all bisexual people automatically have ‘straight privilege’” as if it is some sort of status crime to be bisexual, might possible be … gasp, shock… wrong? Quoting from the 2007 essay on the subject by San Francisco’s long-time bisexual/poly activist Peppermint, “Straight privilege is all those things you get just by being, acting, or appearing straight. Conversely, straight privilege is all those things you lose when you are, act, or appear as queer.” All the queer-looking people without an ounce of “straight privilege” in the photo are actually bisexual-identified LGBTQ folks EXCEPT the for two wealthy white guys in business attire. Those two are gay men, (bottom left that’s Joe Solmonese Executive Director HCR and in the middle-ish is Ryan Murphy co-creator and showrunner of Glee). See how that works?
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bialogue-group:

Straight Privilege? Really? Who here actually ARE the people with ‘privilege’?

Please point out all the bisexual people in the photo exhibiting ‘typical’ examples of ‘straight privilege’.

Now please point out who in the photo are people who actually HAVE ‘privilege’. Oh they happen to be a couple of wealthy and powerful gay men? Oh?

So maybe that old cliche some people like to winge on and on (and on and on) about that “all bisexual people automatically have ‘straight privilege’” as if it is some sort of status crime to be bisexual, might possible be … gasp, shock… wrong?

Quoting from the 2007 essay on the subject by San Francisco’s long-time bisexual/poly activist Peppermint, “Straight privilege is all those things you get just by being, acting, or appearing straight. Conversely, straight privilege is all those things you lose when you are, act, or appear as queer.” All the queer-looking people without an ounce of “straight privilege” in the photo are actually bisexual-identified LGBTQ folks EXCEPT the for two wealthy white guys in business attire. Those two are gay men, (bottom left that’s Joe Solmonese Executive Director HCR and in the middle-ish is Ryan Murphy co-creator and showrunner of Glee).

See how that works?

Source: facebook.com

powerpussysays:

the newest addition to College QUILTBAG, Hannah, discusses the monosexism she faces within the queer community.

Source: powerpussysays

Reads: “This person supports LGBTQ youth and will speak out against homophobia, transphobia, & bullying.” The “B” in “LGBTQ youth” was later bolded and “Biphobia,” was added. The new photo reads: “This person supports LGBTQ youth and will speak out against homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, & bullying.” I’m not sure why everyone thinks that somehow “homophobia” takes care of bisexuals, it doesn’t. Leaving biphobia out of things like this is called Bisexual Erasure, it is a form of discrimination and bigotry. I want to spit nails when I see LGBTQ organizations and the LGBTQ movement say they are for “gay and trans rights,” leaving out bisexuals, and say they fight against “homophobia and transphobia,” leaving out biphobia, and fight against “heterosexim and cissexism,” leaving out monosexism.
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Reads: “This person supports LGBTQ youth and will speak out against homophobia, transphobia, & bullying.” The “B” in “LGBTQ youth” was later bolded and “Biphobia,” was added. The new photo reads: “This person supports LGBTQ youth and will speak out against homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, & bullying.”

I’m not sure why everyone thinks that somehow “homophobia” takes care of bisexuals, it doesn’t. Leaving biphobia out of things like this is called Bisexual Erasure, it is a form of discrimination and bigotry.

I want to spit nails when I see LGBTQ organizations and the LGBTQ movement say they are for “gay and trans rights,” leaving out bisexuals, and say they fight against “homophobia and transphobia,” leaving out biphobia, and fight against “heterosexim and cissexism,” leaving out monosexism.

bisexual-community: bidyke: melodiousbloodshed: bidyke: Brain dead + some free time + wanting to be productive = some more bi graphics. This one is an A4 poster version of this bisexual manifesto. Download, print and spread around at will. For a full size download, go to this page. This is Beautiful (yes, capital b. I meant to do that.) I love it. I feel that way—that’s the feedback I get from my uncle, and I hate it. He doesn’t even know that half the time, when I talk about my bi friends…I add me in too. He just hates on them and I have to keep myself from crying, because he’s one of the people whose opinions matter most to me. It isn’t my fault I’m this way. It isn’t your fault he’s this way. :) BECAUSE we are not real AND our orientation is only a phase AND we’ll just leave for a member of another sex any day AND our way of loving is only a sign of confusion AND when we haven’t changed in 5 or 10 or 20 or 50 years we are still just confused AND when we’re in a different-sex relationship then we are holding onto “straight privilege” AND when we’re in a same-sex relationship then we’ve finally “come all the way out” AND when we’re in a different-sex relationship we’re really just straight AND when we’re in a same-sex relationship then we’re really gay or lesbian AND when we dare suggesting that we have our own identity we are traitors of the community AND if we identify as bisexual we think there are only two genders AND when we identify as pansexual then we’re simply hipsters AND when we don’t self-define then we’re invisible AND because every historical figure or celebrity who has ever had a same-sex relationship was really gay or lesbian no matter how they may have felt about other genders AND we’re told we can’t make up our minds AND that we’re just attention seekers AND when we’re monogamous then we’re not really bisexual AND when we’re polyamorous then we’re reinforcing stereotypes AND because we want to fuck anything that moves AND because it’s okay to sexually harass us and we’re not allowed to choose or refuse or reject it AND because it’s okay to ask us invasive questions about our sex lives AND because every fuck up about our relationships is attributed to our bisexuality AND because we see personal ads that say “no bisexuals” AND for lots and lots of other reasons, WE ARE PART OF THE BISEXUAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT
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bisexual-community:

bidyke:

melodiousbloodshed:

bidyke:

Brain dead + some free time + wanting to be productive = some more bi graphics. This one is an A4 poster version of this bisexual manifesto. Download, print and spread around at will.

For a full size download, go to this page.

This is Beautiful (yes, capital b. I meant to do that.) I love it. I feel that way—that’s the feedback I get from my uncle, and I hate it. He doesn’t even know that half the time, when I talk about my bi friends…I add me in too. He just hates on them and I have to keep myself from crying, because he’s one of the people whose opinions matter most to me.

It isn’t my fault I’m this way.

It isn’t your fault he’s this way.

:)

BECAUSE we are not real AND our orientation is only a phase AND we’ll just leave for a member of another sex any day AND our way of loving is only a sign of confusion AND when we haven’t changed in 5 or 10 or 20 or 50 years we are still just confused AND when we’re in a different-sex relationship then we are holding onto “straight privilege” AND when we’re in a same-sex relationship then we’ve finally “come all the way out” AND when we’re in a different-sex relationship we’re really just straight AND when we’re in a same-sex relationship then we’re really gay or lesbian AND when we dare suggesting that we have our own identity we are traitors of the community AND if we identify as bisexual we think there are only two genders AND when we identify as pansexual then we’re simply hipsters AND when we don’t self-define then we’re invisible AND because every historical figure or celebrity who has ever had a same-sex relationship was really gay or lesbian no matter how they may have felt about other genders AND we’re told we can’t make up our minds AND that we’re just attention seekers AND when we’re monogamous then we’re not really bisexual AND when we’re polyamorous then we’re reinforcing stereotypes AND because we want to fuck anything that moves AND because it’s okay to sexually harass us and we’re not allowed to choose or refuse or reject it AND because it’s okay to ask us invasive questions about our sex lives AND because every fuck up about our relationships is attributed to our bisexuality AND because we see personal ads that say “no bisexuals” AND for lots and lots of other reasons, WE ARE PART OF THE BISEXUAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT

Source: drynwhyl.deviantart.com

Despite the overwhelming data that bisexuals exist, other people’s assumptions often render bisexuals invisible. Two women holding hands are read as “lesbian,” two men as “gay,” and a man
and a woman as “straight.” In reality, any of these people might be bi―perhaps all of them.

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Or pansexual.

Or queer.

Or not identifying with any specific orientation.

(via sweetcalamity)

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(via thecuntmentality)

I wanted to add something here about the problematic addition to this equation of cissexism and our assumptions/flawed perceptions of “gender” based on outward appearances but I can’t quite put things in to words at the moment owing to my brain being entirely mush right now. (via deliberatelyobtuse)

(via bisexual-community)

Source: biinthebiblebelt

I've spent ten years being invisible

bisexual-community:

barefootsoul:

Listen.

I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’m in college now, and I’m able to be more open and involved in the LGBT community.

I’m not sure if it’s because a few hateful and ignorant comments in recent months have sent me over the edge.

I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve always felt this way, and I’ve just now gained the courage and words necessary to voice my opinion.

But I have something to say, and you’re all gonna listen.

I am bisexual.

I have always been bisexual, and, as current evidence suggests, I will always be bisexual.

I stopped thinking guys had cooties in about third grade, when I was nine years old.

I remember falling for a boy who attended my church [and still does], and trying to find a way to make him love me.

I also really, really adored my third grade teacher.  I had no idea what I was feeling at the time because it seemed like the same kind of attraction I had for the boy at my church, but that was impossible, because I couldn’t be straight and gay at the same time, right?

I remember asking my mom if I was gay for really caring about a girl, and she said no.  I was relieved, for awhile, at least.

Over the years, I had more attractions, both for guys and for girls, although I didn’t realize my connections with the girls were crushes at the time.

Then middle school happened, I started wearing all black and hanging out with the “mall rats” at the local mall arcade, and I started hearing the term “bisexual” floating around.

At that point in time, among that crowd, everyone claimed to be bi.  It was the “cool” thing, I guess; it was a way for kids who wanted to revolt against society to revolt even further.  I played around with the label a bit, but it was for the wrong reasons, so I didn’t feel like it fit me.  Then again, I didn’t feel “straight,” either.  I knew deep down, at the time, I belonged to the Q in LGBTQ, but admitting out loud that I was questioning seemed so impossible.  I’d seen kids who weren’t straight get blacklisted and ridiculed at my school, and it wasn’t going to happen to me.

That summer I experienced my first intense infatuation with a guy.  That confirmed that I was, indeed, attracted to men… and yet, not even two months after that, I fell for a girl.  This was the first time that I knew, without a doubt, I was attracted to someone of the same gender as myself.  I was terrified to come out, but I knew I was bisexual.

The summer after that year, I attended a camp for high school students that covered different types of oppression, specifically classism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism.  That camp was completely life-altering, and it gave me the courage to come out.  I was fourteen and about to enter my freshman year of high school.  Compared to most of the LGBTQ persons I know, that’s an extremely early age to come out, but I knew it was the right decision for me.

Since then, I have gone through periods of time where all of my crushes happened to be female or male.  I have also been attracted to a few transgendered individuals, and there have been times where I haven’t felt any desire, emotionally or sexually, to pursue anyone at all.  So yes, I have questioned my sexual orientation multiple times since I’ve come out… but then I’ll develop feelings for another person, and it will confirm that I am, in fact, attracted to women and men.  Always.

So why is it that I listened to my aunt, who is an “ally” (and, coincidentally, knows nothing of my orientation), blatantly state that there is “no such thing as bisexuality?”

Why am I referred to by some of my friends as gay, and when I correct them, they act as if terminology means nothing?

Why have my friends and family told me that I will eventually come out as completely gay?

Why have I heard gays and lesbians say “I’ll never date a bisexual?”

Why do people assume I’ll cheat on them with someone of the opposite gender?

Why do people assume I’ll find it acceptable to have a partner of each gender?

Why do people think I’m doing this for attention?

Listen.

I spent a good part of my adolescence confused as fuck, not even knowing what I was or what my feelings meant.

When I had my first experience with a girl, I felt like I was doing something wrong by being this way, by being attracted to both genders.  I cut myself, burned myself, and tried to make myself throw up that night because I felt as if I needed to be punished in some way for my actions and the fact that I couldn’t “pick sides.”

And I’ve tried to pick sides.

Don’t you think, if I could choose, I’d be either gay or straight, so at least I’d be left alone by ONE community?

I felt that way at one point in time, yes.  I felt like it’d be easier to be straight.  Hell, I even felt like it might be easier to be a lesbian.

But you know what?

I am bisexual.

I have always been bisexual.

I will always be bisexual.

And, despite what people have said and done to bring me down, I’m fucking proud.

Preach It! *clap* *clap* *clap*

Source: barefootsoul