as a bisexual i can confirm the authenticity of these statements – Page 2

emilianadarling:

The erasure and othering that’s directed towards bisexual people
is so incredibly pervasive though?? Like… I have been out as a bisexual woman
for well over a decade. I’m a proper grownup who is completely confident in my
own sexuality and I still think of
myself as being entirely separate from the LGBTQIA+ community the vast majority
of the time. Sometimes people make comments about allies and part of my brain
is like ‘gosh I hope I don’t do that’ swiftly followed by ‘NO WAIT THIS IS YOUR
COMMUNITY TOO, YOU NUMPTY, THE B IS FOR YOU’ and I just

I’m glad that the LGBTQIA+ community is more
welcoming towards bisexuals than it used to be, but I suppose it’s difficult to
unlearn years and years of being explicitly told that I don’t belong.

I really hope it’s something that future generations of
bisexuals don’t have to deal with.