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Bisexual women with straight male partners least likely to be out, study finds
Bisexual women’s health and well-being may be affected by the gender and sexual orientation of their significant other , according to a fresh study published in the Journal of Bisexuality.
Researchers asked more than 600 attracted to both genders women (and those who report being attracted to more than one gender) about their mental health, how open they are about their sexuality, their experiences with discrimination, and any symptoms of depression. They also collected information about whether the respondents were single or in a relationship and about their partner’s sexual orientation and gender identity.
Among their findings is that double attraction women in relationships with heterosexual cisgender men were least likely to be open about their sexual orientation.
“Most research about relationships has been focused on heterosexual couples,” Casey Xavier Hall, a postdoctoral analyze fellow at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Northwestern University and lead composer on the article, told NBC News. “There is very little relationship study around bi people’s relationships. There are meaningful differences in relationsh
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Opinion: Lesbians and Bi Women – Culture Clash?
Why can’t we just all earn along?
I have a lot of close bi friends. I have dated bi women. I hear a lot about how bi women feel pressure to ‘prove’ their queerness and how they get the message that they are not legitimate, by both straights and queers, particularly if they mainly, or always so far, spouse with men, or are married to one. They feel that lesbians don’t want to date them.
I am a lesbian. I have lesbian friends. I have dated lesbian women. I have heard first hand why some lesbians are reluctant to date bi women. I have heard how some bi women feel about that.
Being the kind of person who is analytical and defaults to ‘why can’t we all just get along?’ I have thought a lot about how both sides aren’t ‘getting’ one another.
Here’s what I’ve enter up with, to describe what I see as the cultural divide. These are things that I don’t see talked about elsewhere, and factors my bi women friends relate me they have not known or considered.
Standard disclaimers:
I can’t speak for more than my own experience
The experiences
“I felt an attraction to women since junior high, but I didn’t operate on it. I was terrified.” When she was growing up in a small town nearby Grand Rapids, Mich., Aubrey Marron kept her feelings to herself. That changed in 1973 when she left to go to Michigan State University, where she immediately began volunteering at the lesbian center.
“I was helping out with their newsletter and thinking I was gay,” she said.
But it didn’t fit. East Lansing’s woman loving woman community at that time had brief tolerance for women who didn’t reject men entirely, Marron says. Bi people were at finest a minority within a minority, even though in 2022 they constituted more than 55 percent of LGBT people, and 75 percent of those polled who identified as bisexual were women.
“The attitude was ‘You’re with us or you aren’t,’ that I was trying to ‘have the best of both worlds,’ and if I was in a relationship with a woman I’d leave her for a guy,” Marron recalled.
Though she didn’t go out of her way to tell others that she’s bi, she didn’t hide it, either. She says the gay men she knew didn’t have any obstacle with it. But with a lot of straight guys it was different.
“They had fantasies of being with me