Bi or gay
List of Homosexual terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A pos used to explain people who possess a fluid sexual and/or romantic orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as adequately as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who encounter romantic attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also exploit terms such as gay, bi, woman loving woman, straight and gay in conjunction with asexual to portray the direction of their romantic or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to describe the wide group of people who exposure a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of intimate and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also exploit terms such as gay, bi, queer woman , straight
The Bi Line: Why Some of Us Still Say We're "Gay AF"
A acquaintance who has always openly identified as gay recently opened up to me about his bisexuality. In our conversations, he wondered if he was capable to still speak he's "gay AF". He was worried that by using this popular expression he would erase his bisexuality.
I get together lots of bi people who vocalize their bisexuality to me when they find out I'm a bi activist. Many of those people outwardly distinguish as gay or lesbian in arrange to remain a part of the gay community. One way that many of these folks do this is to use well-known phrases and terms that identify them as gay, even if they are out as bi.
The more popular terms and sayings for queer people usually center on gayness. This is due, in part, to the fact that individuals in both the gay and straight communities don't see bisexuality as really queer. Most don't think bisexuality has a customs or a society. Saying something appreciate I'm "gay AF" allows bi people to communicate to gay people "I'm part of the queer community, I'm one of you" without fearing biphobia or the anxiety of having to come out as
We used to watch Coronation Street a lot at home in Liverpool. I remember one episode where Sean and the girls were crowding around in the knicker shop talking about a new potential love interest on the cobbles who was rumoured to be bisexual. While I don’t remember the plot-line, I do recollect Sean saying, ‘well you know how it goes- bi now, gay later!’
A funny little one liner that was intended to be glib informed my view of bisexuality for most of my preceding teens and is indicative of how lots of pieces of misinformation and assumptions have been quite damaging for the group. For me, there hasn’t been one ultimate expose for what it means to be bisexual; rather this has been built over time based on my own experiences and understanding of how the definition has developed. Therefore, it is best to begin with an agreed definition and then progress to the nuances (see bi-erasure).
The LGBT Foundation defines bisexuality as:
Someone who is attracted to people of the same gender or other genders.
Others may prefer the term Pansexual (someone who is emotionally, sexually, and/or physically attracted to others regardless of gender identity). Unfortun
Bisexual FAQ
What does bisexual mean?
In simplest terms, a bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender; but adults and youth who name as bisexual sometimes depict themselves differently. Many bi-curious adults have embraced the definition proposed by longtime bisexual leader, national speaker and award-winning activist Robyn Ochs:
"I call myself attracted to both genders because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the similar time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree."
This broad definition of bisexuality includes people who identify as pansexual, queer, fluid and other labels that suggest potential attraction to more than one gender.
How many people are bisexual?
According to the Williams Institute and the HRC Foundation's own study, studies suggest that about 50 percent of people who identify as either gay, lesbian or bisexual person, identify as bisexual. This makes the bisexual population the single largest community within the LGBTQ+ community.
Can a transgender person also be bisexual?
Not to be confused with Bi-Veldian.
A bi gay or bi-oriented gay is someone who is both bisexual/biromantic/etc. and gay.
This legal title can be used by men and others who use the split attraction model and are pansexual and homoromantic, homosexual biromantic or those who trial gay or bi tertiary attraction. They have sexual attraction to two or more genders but are only romantically attracted to their own/similar gender(s). They may find themselves sexually attracted to dissimilar genders, but could never picture themselves in a sexual relationship with them, putting more emphasis on their attraction to their own/similar genders, though this varies from person to person. Or they could be romantically attracted to any gender but only sexually attracted to the same/similar gender or are only willing to be with the same/similar gender(s) sexually.
It can also be used by people who identify as both attracted to both genders and gay, either due to changing attraction (such as abrosexuality), or due being part of a plural system, such as having a different sexuality when fronting, or organism in a median system where one member somewhat experiences their headmate(s)' attraction(s).
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