The Best of Both Worlds? Carmen Balza, Home Office Elizabeth Reiff, Lloyds Banking Group Laura Ferguson, Stonewall Scotland

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The Best of Both Worlds?Carmen Balza,
Home OfficeElizabeth Reiff, Lloyds Banking Group
Laura Ferguson, Stonewall Scotland
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What Does BiphobiaLook Like?

• Adapted and added to by Elizabeth Reiff, November
  2010.
• Some original material by Lani Ka'ahumanu and Rob
  Yaeger from conversations with Gerard Palmeri,
  Danielle Raymond, Loraine Hutchins, and Cianna
  Stewart. Portions adapted from material by the
  Rape Crisis Center of West Contra Costa County,
  CA the Boston Lesbian Task Force and Building
  Bridges.

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erasure

• Assuming that everyone you come into contact with
  is either gay or straight.
• Automatically assuming couples where both are
  women are lesbian, or two men are both gay, or a
  man and a woman are both straight.
• Expecting a bisexual to identify as heterosexual
  when coupled with the opposite gender/sex.
• Expecting a bisexual to identify as gay or
  lesbian when coupled with the same sex/gender.
• Assuming bisexuals would be willing to pass as
  anything other than bisexual.
• Asking your bisexual friend about their lover
  only when they are in a relationship like the one
  that matches your sexual orientation.
• Feeling that bisexual people are too outspoken
  and pushy about their visibility and rights.

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phase

• Supporting and understanding a bisexual identity
  for young people because you identified that
  way before you came to your real
  lesbian/gay/heterosexual identity.

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indecisive

• Thinking bisexual people haven't made up their
  minds.
• Believing bisexuals are confused about their
  sexuality.
• Feeling bisexuals just want to have their cake
  and eat it too.

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disease vector

• Believing bisexual men spread AIDS/HIV and other
  STDs to heterosexuals.
• Believing that bisexual women spread AIDS/HIV and
  other STDs to lesbians.

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slutty

• Assuming bisexual means available.
• Assuming a bisexual person would want to fulfill
  your sexual fantasies or curiosities.
• Thinking that bisexual people cant be monogamous
  or must have one of each.
• Looking at a bisexual person and automatically
  thinking of their sexuality rather than seeing
  them as a whole, complete person.

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attention whores

• Thinking that people identify as bisexual because
  it's trendy.
• If a celebrity comes out of the closet as
  bisexual, thinking theyre only doing it for
  attention.

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untrustworthy

• Feeling that you can't trust a bisexual because
  they aren't really gay or lesbian, or aren't
  really heterosexual.

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half gay half straight

• Expecting bisexual people to get services,
  information and education from heterosexual
  service agencies for their heterosexual side
  and then go to gay and/or lesbian service
  agencies for their homosexual side.
• Thinking bisexuals only have committed
  relationships with opposite sex/gender
  partners.
• Assuming that bisexuals, if given the choice,
  would prefer to be within an opposite
  gender/sex coupling to reap the social benefits
  of a heterosexual pairing.
• Thinking that bisexual people should have their
  rights only once lesbian and gay people win
  theirs, as bisexuality is too complex for most
  people to understand.

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binary

• Accusing bisexual people of reinforcing a gender
  binary because the word bisexual contains the
  prefix bi.
• Thinking that people who identify as bisexual are
  specifically stating that they are not attracted
  to transgender or intersex or genderqueer people.

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• Pledge at least one action you will take back to
  your workplace to make a difference

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