September 9, 2026
(notes from an otherwise fairly ordinary bisexual man during Bi-Visibility Month) Most mornings, I don’t wake up thinking about being bisexual. I wake up thinking about whether I have enough time for coffee, about my work for the day, my patients, maybe some unfinished blog post, about whether I should go to the gym today or successfully negotiate with myself for another rest day, what to make for lunch… Sometimes about deadlines, family, friends, bills, groceries, messages I forgot to reply to and, every now and then, someone I am falling in love with. Oh but most importantly feeding my two kittens and cleaning the litter bins! I’m an orthodontist and in my leisure, I teach yoga, I write poetry, I sing… I can be opinionated, stubborn, affectionate, ambitious, annoyingly particular about certain things and spectacularly absent-minded about others. I’m a cisgender man. And somewhere amongst all these fairly ordinary facts about me… I am bisexual. Well if you ask me if it really matters? Of course it does… But it isn’t everything. And yet, remarkably often, my bisexuality seems to occupy a perfectly ordinary amount of space inside me… and a considerably larger amount of space in […]

