Fuck Yeah Bisexual Girls

Beyond Visibility: Franky Fitzgerald and the Great Gender Binary

Lesbian and bisexual women have long been fans of gender-bending females, at least aesthetically. But when it comes to the substance behind neckties, bowties and button-downs, many of us are unlearned, unconcerned, or just plain uninterested. The makers of Gay and Lesbian Alphabet Soup keep adding letters to the recipe — LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and asexual) is the most recent incarnation — but even in the Bowl of Otherness, we don’t often encourage dialogue beyond the “B.”

STFU Monosexuals: A note to Bisexuals:

afterthecurtain:

deliciouslysubversive:

austinthecowboy:

ftmark:

If you only are attracted to cismale and cisfemale people, that’s cool, I respect that.

But if you are attracted to all genders (or lack there ofs) and sexes, you might want to consider changing your identity name to Pansexual.

Just sayin’. When you say “I’m bi” I hear “I’m only attracted to people who fall into the cissexual male-female binary.”

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. If someone tells me they’re bisexual, I generally assume they’re not going to be interested in me as an out, not-always-passing trans person. This is one of the reasons I identify as queer, because my attractions encompass more than two genders.

[re: pansexual] or queer!

Yea. It confuses me when straight men, lesbian women, or bisexual people say they’re interested in me because my first thought is, “does that mean you see me as a girl/woman and are in fact invalidating my gender identity? cause I’m not the “opposite” sex to male and I’m not the “same” sex as female. GENDERFUCK. 

I find this attitude to bisexuality a bit problematic, because some people/places (for example, the front page of the second link down when you google “bisexual”) define bisexuality as “someone who is attracted to more than one gender.” It even goes on to say how “Bisexual isn’t about there being only “two sexes”. Some people get hung up on the ‘bi’… Bisexuality isn’t an attempt to pigeonhole gender, it’s the freedom to feel attraction without blinkers!.” and how “Bisexual is queer.”

Basically, there are discrepancies with how people define bisexual.

I worry that we’re moving towards a place where everyone who is more up with LGBTQ activism identifies as queer or pan rather than bi for the reasons stated by people above - not being ciscentric etc, which is okay and completely valid. But:

* Bi-identifying people who are completely oblivious to this debate risk getting penalized for going by the only label which they know.

* “Bisexual” is a more widely accepted and known term than pansexual or queer outside of the LGBTQ community. People who identify as bisexual for that reason risk being penalized.

And that’s what worries me.

Emphasis mine. I’m in full agreement about people who identify as bisexual because they’re completely unaware of any other applicable label. You don’t get to lock us out of the LGBTQ community, then chastise us for not knowing the secret handshakes.

(via afterthecurtain)

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