Original: Bisexual Visibility Day

This was posted on the Bisexual Visibility Day of 2016 (I still don't know how we lost the opportunity of calling it Bisibility Day...). Along with the drawing, I posted some reminders to destroy myths about that sexuality, and I will repeat them here:

• The definition of bisexuality is not "Feeling attraction towards men or women" or "Feeling attraction for 2 genders", but rather "Feeling attraction towards 2 or more genders" - men, women or non-binary people. Some people interpret the "bi" to imply not two genders, but two kinds of attraction, towards the same gender and towards different genders, but keep in mind that isn't a completely inclusive definition, since some non-binary people are bisexual - even agender people - and it's hard to apply the idea of "same gender" in those cases.
• Someone can use multiple labels from the bi+/multi/plurisexual umbrella at the same time - like bisexual and pansexual - or opt to use only one, but while the pansexual label requires that a person likes all genders - therefore feeling attraction regardless of gender, which is the definition - to be bisexual, it's enough to like two, and therefore the numbers and definitions overlap. The reasons to prefer one label over others are varied, ranging from the history of the label and respective community to the personal attachment to each label, to the way they perceive their attraction for each gender and how similar/different those attractions feel.
• The same logic can be applied to biromanticism. Not everyone has a sexual orientation aligned with their romantic orientation - you can know more researching by "split-model attraction" - so it is possible to be bisexual without being biromantic and the other way around.
• To the definition, it only matters that a person likes more than one gender. Not that they like those genders equally, with the same intensity, frequency nor during all of their life.
• To be bisexual is not: to be confused, a phase, a step to become "completely gay", to be half gay half straight, to be polyamorous (there are polyamorous bisexual people, but it's not a synonym nor in any way implied), to have a tendency to betray a person because bi people "miss the other gender"...

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