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September 9, 2026
Why Does Being Bisexual Need So Much Explaining?
(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 […]
June 19, 2026
Too Gay to Be Bi 🩷💜💙
Yesterday, an old colleague confidently informed me that I am not bisexual! Not because they had lived my life or known my relationships, or because they had any intimate knowledge of my attractions. But because they had “met me.” Apparently, that was enough for them to know my orientation! What began as a conversation about a story I am currently writing slowly drifted towards sexuality, labels, identity, and eventually, me. Somewhere in the middle of that discussion, I mentioned that while “I am not particularly fond of labels, if I had to choose one, I identify as bisexual.” And mind you, the person also associates themselves as part of the queer community. And funnily, their response to my declaration of being Bi was immediate, “No, you’re not.” A more reasonable response could still have been — “Really?” or “I didn’t know that.” or “Tell me more.” Rather it was just a flat-out rejection of a reality I have lived with for years. And I found that fascinating… Maybe a little offensive too, but not too shocking. Just fascinating… because it reminded me of something that bisexual people often encounter, both inside and outside the LGBTQIA+ community: the assumption that other […]