Bi The Way

Why I’m not out

2009-06-10T09:58:03Z

Tiresias has written recently about the importance of bi guys being visible (Goodbye, Mister Bond: Why Telling Matters). I had been wondering for a while if I should come out and be honest with the world about myself, particularly since developing intense feelings for a close friend. But I have decided that I’m not going [...]

Is any news good news?

2009-06-11T16:32:16Z

Photo by Robin Wong. Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 I have to confess I’m not normally a reader of The Sun newspaper, but sitting in a Chinese takeaway yesterday, flicking idly through a copy of it, I was struck by the sight of the word ‘bisexual’ in a headline. It appears that a number of American female celebrities [...]

Writer’s block

2009-06-11T16:36:36Z

Lately there have been some people who have expressed concern that I’m no longer updating this web site. First of all I’d like to reassure everyone that I am. Though truthfully, not as frequently as I once was. Comments are still been published and I’m replying to individual posts whenever I think I have something [...]

What do I want from my male friends?

2009-04-08T11:11:34Z

Marston, our newest contributor, opens with an piece which I think many Bi-guys can relate to, the conflict of realising you’ve fallen for a guy yet at the same time are happily married to your wife. This question has been much on my mind lately. I’m a 39 year old bi guy, I am very [...]

LGBT Portrayals in Soap Operas

2009-03-31T08:54:19Z

A week or so back I was contacted by a young lady who is doing some research into the representation of lesbian gay and bisexual people in soap operas for her Media Studies A-level. Soap Operas are some of the most viewed programs on TV, therefore even if you are not a soap fan, the way [...]

The modern HIV epidemic

2009-03-18T21:51:29Z

When the gay & bisexual community talks about the HIV epidemic, they talk about it in past tense. They talk about it as something which plagued the gay & bisexual community during the 80’s and early 90’s. Claiming the lives of countless friends, sons and loved ones. At the time conservative hard-liners cackled with glee at [...]

Bi Now, Gay Later: Staring Down a Myth

2009-03-15T17:38:28Z

Bi the Way has described why bi men can look gay to those who know them. I won’t restate what Bi the Way has already written, but I want to briefly show how homophobia, media portrayals, and bi writing itself conspire to make bisexuality look like a ruse. Understanding how the myth works can help [...]

Goodbye, Mister Bond: Why Telling Matters

2009-03-09T14:33:33Z

I wrote last time that I’m closeted. It’s not that I haven’t told anyone, but not everyone I’ve told believes me. Yesterday, a friend claimed I’m just like her: straight but not afraid to cross the gender barrier. Meanwhile, my wife insists that I’m just curious. Thus I remain to others curiously straight, and to [...]

Stop deporting LGBT Asylum Seekers

2009-03-06T11:36:06Z

This is a late call for signatures for a “10 Downing Street” web site petition to call on the British government to stop deporting LGBT asylum seekers to countries where they may be imprisioned, tortured or executed because of their sexuality. The petition reads: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop deporting gays and lesbians [...]

Reasons to Blog Bisexually

2009-03-04T21:17:34Z

Bitheway.co.uk is open to many voices and we’ve invited contributors from across the world to share their views, opinions and experiences of bisexuality with our community. Up first is a piece by Tiresias an English Literature Major from Oklahoma in the American Mid-west. In his first piece Tiresias discusses what inspires him to write about [...]

Private Bisexuality

2009-02-04T09:48:36Z

I get an increasing number of emails from distraught women who have just found out their boyfriend or husband is bisexual. For some this obviously creates issues for their relationship, but for most the biggest issue seems to be that their boyfriend won’t talk about his bisexuality with them. I feel for these women, because they [...]

Papal address angers LGBT groups

2008-12-31T00:50:32Z

The Pope’s end of year address has angered LGBT groups as Pope Benedict XVI made a clear rejection of Gender Theory. Gender theory explores sexual orientation and the roles assigned to individuals by society according to gender. The address follows the Vatican’s refusal to endorse a UN sponsored universal declaration to decriminalize homosexuality. And is the [...]

UN tries to legalise homosexuality

2008-12-30T23:52:12Z

A recently tabled resolution put before the United Nations aimed at decriminalising homosexuality and explicitly extending the universal declaration of human rights to include protection against discrimination, persecution and imprisonment based on sexual orientation has split the UN. The resolution sponsored by France and The Netherlands was backed by 66 nations including the UK, but was [...]

Female Logic

2008-12-10T10:20:46Z

There’s been a flurry of activity on my post “How to talk to your bisexual boyfriend“, for obvious reasons this is attracting comments from women, who have just discovered or at least suspect that their boyfriend is bisexual. Whist obviously this is a difficult thing for anyone to deal with, I have to admit to [...]

Borderline Asexual?

2009-02-03T16:39:26Z

Recently I’ve been wondering if I might actually be asexual rather than bisexual. You see, my physical and emotional attraction to people of both sexes still remains, but my sex-life has once again ground to a halt. In fact its gotten so bad I actually went and looked up the definition of asexuality to see [...]

How did the “T” get into LGBT?

2008-11-20T20:51:23Z

Now I don’t wish to be excluding of Transgender people, but “how did the ‘T’ get into LGBT?” that was the question asked by Ll in the discussion on The Transgender Issue article. During the article I made the point that being transsexual is about gender identity and its not about sexuality. Sexuality is completely [...]

American Votes for Hope

2008-11-24T12:09:49Z

The election of Barack Obama as the 44th US President sent a clear signal to the world that America’s racially divided past is now history. The sense of hope is palpable. We can feel it on the opposite side of the Atlantic, America is energised, optimistic and hungry for change. The around the world people [...]

Gay Politics vs. Bisexual Politics

2009-01-05T02:09:01Z

In these politically charged times, particularly with the US presidential elections just a few weeks away. I thought I’d write something explaining my take on the differences between gay and bisexual politics and possibly add some insights into why the gay community exists as a political movement, whereas bisexuals don’t even seem to have a [...]

An Update of Sorts

2008-10-17T14:05:36Z

Well recently, I’ve not been posting as much as I would have liked or as regularly as I have done previously, there are several reasons, so I felt I kinda offered everyone a bit of an explanation. Firstly I never wanted to post for the sake of it and to a certain extent I’m breaking that [...]

Is it safe to vote Republican?

2008-10-13T11:21:20Z

With the US presidential elections just weeks away, has anything changed in the political landscape that allows, lesbian, gay or bisexual people to feel comfortable voting Republican? With the economy and foreign policy dominating the issues in this year’s campaign, social issues such as abortion and gay-marriage have slid down the agenda. The fact that these [...]

Religious Intolerance

2008-09-29T23:07:25Z

I was reading a post on Lesbian Said What about Religious intolerance and amongst the comments was a post by some character called “Sane” who struck me as being totally insane. His argument against Gay Marriage was so laughably bigoted I had to repost it just to be sure I inhabit the same world. “Sane” cites [...]