Sorry if this is the wrong comm, but I had to get this off my chest. I am so sick and tired of dealing with bi-erasure. I am a bisexual man who is I'd say 90% attracted to women and 10% attracted to men. Best I can explain it, I am mostly attracted to women and occasionally attracted to a man. It really is that simple, but for a lot of people I might as well be explaining calculus. I understand if most straight people can't fathom it, after all they are straight. But what really irks me is when other LGBT people erase it, telling me I am "in the closet" or whatever. It makes me so damn angry because I am not in the closet, I am open about my bisexuality, yet no one believes it. I have only dated women, but everyone in my life off and online including my gf who herself is LGBTQ+ thinks I am gay. I'm so sick of it I think I'll either just tell people I am straight or become gay.
It is an effect of Heterosexual culture that causes the current LGBTQ to reflexively use the logic of the Heteros, but just spin it on its head.
Most queer folx I know are hella supportive of bi people, but it's definitely an issue with some older queers.
I think it's leftover stigma from the false perception that bi people are able to "more easily" retreat into the closet. That's total bullshit since a lot of people accross the queer community did that during Reagan's AIDS genocide trying to survive.
either way, it pisses me the fuck off. queer folks who gatekeep other people will be compassionately re-educated after the revolution.
quickest way I've found to figure out another queer person's brain worms is to mention I'm a bisexual lesbian.
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J Butler wrote about this, I think