There is increasing inclusion and visibility of bisexuals, particularly in the LGBT community. Īnother common variant of bisexual erasure involves accepting bisexuality in women while downplaying or rejecting the validity of bisexual identity in men.
Bisexual erasure is a form of stigma and leads to adverse mental health consequences for people who identify as bisexual. Bisexual erasure often results in bisexual-identifying individuals' experiencing a variety of adverse social encounters, as they not only have to struggle with finding acceptance within society but also within the LGBT community. Bisexual erasure is also often a manifestation of biphobia, although it does not necessarily involve overt antagonism. Gross misrepresentations of bisexual individuals as hypersexual erases the sexual agency of bisexuals, effectively erasing their true identities as well. One reason for this is the belief that bisexual individuals are distinctively indecisive. īisexual erasure may include the assertion all bisexual individuals are in a phase and will soon choose a side, either heterosexual or homosexual. In its most extreme form, bisexual erasure can include the belief that bisexuality itself does not exist. Bisexual erasure or bisexual invisibility is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources.
