Getting Bi In A Gay / Straight World

By Jen Yockney

A short guide to coming out, and staying out, as bisexual - in a world that wants us to "pick a team" of straight or gay. Getting Bi In A Gay/Straight World is based on 25 years of work with BiPhoria, the UK's longest-running bisexual social & support group: on the things people first want to know when coming out as bi. It covers things like bi theory, coming out, bi history, finding community and much more besides.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jen Yockney
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005433413

Jen Yockney

Jen Yockney started volunteering for bisexual community projects more than twentyfive years ago, and still hasn't stopped. Her work saw her awarded the MBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list - the first time anyone had been honoured specifically for "services to the bisexual community" and the first time the title Mx had appeared in the Honours List.

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Getting Bi In A Gay / Straight World

2020 edition

By Jen Yockney MBE

Published by BiPhoria

Contents

Welcome

Language

You’re Not Alone

Telling People

Who To Tell?

Am I Bi Enough?

Partners, Friends and Allies

Bi History

The Science Bit

Relationships

Group Action

Biphobia

Bi Life & Bis Online

Further Reading

Getting Getting Bi

Welcome

Whoever thought the world was just in black and white?  If you’re bi, it sometimes seems the world only wants you to be gay or straight. But life isn’t so clear-cut!

For some of us, our partner’s gender doesn’t matter, it’s all about the person. For others, our partner’s gender is a big part of the appeal. Either way, or even somewhere in between, we’re still bi: and here’s a few tips about getting bi in a gay / straight world.

Bisexuality isn’t complicated, or hard to understand, but people’s attitudes to bisexuality can be tangled. In a world where the local supermarket has thirty varieties of coffee, too often it’s like you still only have two choices about your sexuality.

We’re here to shake that up a little...

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Language

Throughout this booklet we talk about being bi or bisexual and about bisexuality. A decent dictionary’s definitions will tell you something like:

Bisexual: adj.