Mainstreaming Bisexuals

Brother Michael is StonewallAGAIN's bisexual liaison.  Wonderful person who is continuously educating me on the world of the bisexual.

I can never fully understand what it would feel like to be attracted to both sexes.  While I was married to a woman for 13 years and had two children with this woman, I never was really sexually attracted to her.  It was more of a forced situation that came with the whole package of being married.

Brother Michael talks about biphobia and bisexual erasure frequently in blogs.  I understand a little more each time.

Apparently, someone else has been looking to break through the bisexual barrier and put the B back in the LGBT.  They are doing it in a "Will & Grace" show style.  It is very subtle in it's approach.

It is the Syfy show "Lost Girl".  It is interesting show about a succubus.  She is attracted to both male character Dyson who is a wolf man type and contrasted against the beautiful doctor, Lauren.  As she tries to establish a long term relationship, the plot line twists and turns.  It identifies some of the stresses that a bisexual person would run into during relationships.

Another show less obvious on the bisexual television entry is "Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23".  Party girl Chloe, well she is a slut.  I say that because she is frequently referred to as a slut.  This character easily moves from men to women to another woman to men, sometimes many times in one episode.  Pitted against a pure-hearted roommate, June, it is comedy "Three's Company" style.  This is more tongue in cheek comedy and less obvious than "Lost Girl" on the bisexual story line, but you can see that she is comfortable with both sexes in bed.

Hopefully, we see more of these shows introduced.  It gets people to realize that the B is real.  That the B are loving people like all the rest of us.  We need to accept people for who we are regardless of who they love.