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Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, [1] [2] [3] to more than one gender, [4] or to both people of the same gender and different genders. [5]
The bisexual community, also known as the bi+, m-spec, bisexual/pansexual, or bi/pan/fluid community, includes members of the LGBTQ community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, polysexual and sexually fluid. [1] [2] As opposed to hetero- or homosexual people, people in the bisexual community experience attraction to more than one ...
As bisexual leader and activist Robyn Ochs describes bisexuality, it can be romantic and/or sexual attraction “to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not ...
Blues singer Bessie Smith had relationships with both men and women (photo by Carl Van Vechten).. The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" referring to sexual orientation was by the American neurologist Charles Gilbert Chaddock in his 1892 translation of the 7th edition of Krafft-Ebing's seminal work Psychopathia Sexualis.
People with a same-gender sexual orientation generally prefer the terms gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The most common terms are gay (both men and women) and lesbian (women only). Other terms include same gender loving and same-sex-oriented. [4]
Bisexual men, in particular, say they feel the pressures of judgment and invisibility from both straight and LGBTQ people. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Zachary Zane (@zacharyzane_)
The bisexual pride flag was designed in 1998 by Michael Page. The history of bisexuality concerns the history of the bisexual sexual orientation.Ancient and medieval history of bisexuality, when the term did not exist as such, consists of anecdotes of sexual behaviour and relationships between people of the same and different sexes.
The American Psychiatric Association says "individuals maybe become aware at different points in their lives that they are heterosexual, gay, lesbian, or bisexual" and "opposes any psychiatric treatment, such as 'reparative' or 'conversion' therapy, which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder, or based upon ...