Bisexuals find themselves erased in history. Many famous people―such as Marlene Dietrich, June Jordan, Freddie Mercury, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Walt Whitman―have been labeled as lesbian or gay for their same-sex relationships, yet their long-term relationships with different-sex partners are ignored or their importance minimized. This disrespects the truth of their lives for the sake of a binary conception of sexual orientation. It also makes it more difficult for bisexuals just coming out to find role models.

I’m a bisexual woman in a heterosexual marriage and it is hard navigating identities, not just because I’m receiving straight privilege but also because there’s still the assumption that by marrying a person of a specific gender, you’ve chosen to be a sexuality other than bi (people who think my husband has “cured" me, for example). But that’s not the way it works.

Anyway, just wanted to speak to this.

(via thelingerieaddict)