International Bi Visibility Day 2026 – September 23rd
Today we celebrate Bi Visibility Day, honoring the bisexual community and its history. The day was founded in 1999 in the US by activists Wendy Curry, Michael Page (who also designed the bi pride flag), and Gigi Raven Wilbur — and later popularized worldwide as “Bi Visibility Day” by UK activist Jen Yockney.
And despite being one of the largest groups within the LGBTQIA+ community, bi people are still routinely erased, doubted, and left out of the conversation.
📊 To illustrate this point, let’s take the example of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
📍 1 in 4 people place themselves somewhere between “completely gay” and “completely straight,” meaning a quarter of the population may fall under the bi umbrella, often without realizing it. (Source: YouGov, 2019, UK)
🌈 Bi people are less likely to be openly “out” than gay or lesbian people. Among bi men specifically, only around 12% are out. (Source: Stonewall, UK)
💔 Almost a fifth of bi men have faced discrimination from within the LGBTQ+ community itself; over half live with anxiety, and two-fifths have felt that life wasn’t worth living. (Source: Stonewall, UK)
📖 Studies cited by Attitude Magazine (2026) found that 63% of women said they would not date a man who had slept with a man, and two-thirds of straight women, alongside 11% of gay men, said they’d be unwilling to date a bisexual man.
⚖️ In reality, often, bisexual man are too scared to come out to his girlfriend/wife because she’ll assume he’s “gay” — while a bisexual woman is more easily accepted, because her sexuality is filtered through the male fantasy of the “strong sex,” as if she could never truly be satisfied by another woman since, as Simone de Beauvoir wrote, woman has long been defined by society only as “the second sex,” in relation to man.
🎭 Unfortunately, Bi women’s attraction to women is frequently fetishized and consumed through a male, heterosexual gaze — reduced to a performance for someone else’s pleasure rather than recognized as fully theirs.
🚹 Bi men, meanwhile, are stigmatized because traditional masculinity cannot tolerate any perceived proximity to homosexuality — so his attraction to women gets dismissed as a cover story, and his attraction to men gets treated as disqualifying.
💜 Both reactions come from the exact same root: a world that still defines sexuality by what serves men, instead of what bi people actually feel. This is precisely the bias Bi Visibility Day exists to dismantle.
So let’s break some myths. 👇
🗨️ Myth: Bisexuality is “just a phase,” or bi people are secretly gay or secretly straight.
Reality: Bisexuality is a stable, valid identity on its own — not a stopover on the way to somewhere else.
🗨️ Myth: Bi people can’t be monogamous or are inherently unfaithful.
Reality: Attraction to more than one gender has nothing to do with fidelity. Bi people build monogamous, committed relationships just like anyone else.
🗨️ Myth: You have to be “50/50” attracted to be really bi.
Reality: Bisexuality exists on a spectrum. Attraction doesn’t have to be split evenly to be real.
Bi people have always existed, and always will. Their identity doesn’t need to fit anyone else’s expectations to be valid. 💫
To every bi person reading this: we see you, we believe you, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for who you love. 🌈
