Bi women face unique health issues and forms of discrimination that must be addressed.
Participants display a bisexual pride flag on June 29, 2019, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Though she didn’t go out of her way to tell others that she’s bi, she didn’t hide it, either. She says the gay men she knew didn’t have any problem with it. But with a lot of straight guys it was different. But men’s fixation on bi women’s sexuality can turn dangerous, as it did for Marron when a male friend violently raped her after finding out that she was bi. He told her it was pointless to report it; he said, smirking, “Who do you think they’re going to believe, you or me?”Fifty years later, little has changed. A 2020 study found that among straight women surveyed, the prevalence of rape is 18.7 percent, but among bi women it soars to 46.1 percent.
“[There are] the stereotypes that it’s just a phase, that it’s not a real sexual orientation and people are in transition to another sexual orientation,” Dyar said. But while Turner quickly found friendship and support, bi women in general are more often walking a tightrope without a net. Lacking a community that they can depend on, they face ridicule, discrimination and other abuses entirely on their own. The cost of their isolation can be measured in wide health disparities that separate bi women from others, often with tragic consequences.
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