Did You Know Today Is Bi Visibility Day?

Today is Bi Visibility Day. It’s time our bisexual brothers and sisters get the attention they deserve.

Since 1999, today has been International Celebrate Bisexuality Day, also known as Bi Visibility Day. 

The Bi Visibility Day Facebook page says it “is the brainchild of three United States bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas.”

There’s also a Bi Visibility Day website at bi.org. They’re also on Twitter. There’s also a #bipride Twitter hashtag.

“Women are substantially more likely than men to identify as bisexual,” the Williams Institute reported in 2011. “Bisexuals comprise more than half of the lesbian and bisexual population among women in eight of the nine surveys considered in the brief. Conversely, gay men comprise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men in seven of the nine surveys.”

At the time they estimated more than 2.6 million women (2.2%) and more than 1.5 million men (1.4%) publicly identify as bisexual.

Some famous bisexuals past and present reportedly include Angelina Jolie, David Bowie, Lady Gaga, The Cars’ Ric Ocasek, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Hans Christian Andersen, Joan Baez, Tallulah Bankhead, Drew Barrymore, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, comedian Sandra Bernhard, composer Leonard Bernstein, writers William S. Burroughs and Margaret Mead, British poet Lord Byron, actresses Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Lindsay Lohan, and Nell Carter, actors Alec Guinness, Cary Grant and Montgomery Clift, singer Sammy Davis, Jr., Oscar de la Renta, writers Christopher Hitchens, Eve Ensler, Bret Easton Ellis and Daphne du Maurier, Grace Jones, painter Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Kinsey.

Wikipedia has a list of bisexual people.

 

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