Sophie Cundall, also from Just Like Us, says: “For me, bisexuality means that I am attracted to people of any gender. “The one thing I love about being bisexual is that there is no one way to be bisexual, there is so much flexibility and diversity!” I prefer to use the word bisexual to describe my sexuality as this term is more common and easier to define. To this day, bisexuality can mean different things to different people, and one bisexual person may define their sexuality differently to another bisexual person.Ĭharlie Middleton, an ambassador for LGBTQ+ youth charity Just Like Us, says of his sexuality: “To me bisexuality means being attracted to more than one gender, it is more of a broader term and includes all genders. For example, the Merriam-Webster says bisexuality is “characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s own gender identity and of other gender identities.” Yes, some bisexual people might only be attracted to males and females, while others might be attracted to multiple gender identities – but not all of them. Some may also assume that the ‘bi’ in bisexual, which means two, means that bisexual people aren’t attracted to non-binary people. Now, it’s usually defined as the sexual/romantic attraction to more than one gender – and it’s not just exclusive to those who sit within the male and female gender binaries. At the time, it was defined as “possessing characters of both sexes.” Over the centuries, however, the term has widely evolved and it doesn’t necessarily mean a bisexual individual is attracted to just two genders. According to its Merriam-Webster entry, the first known use of the word “bisexual” was in 1798.
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