"Bi women often face hostility from both the straight and gay communities," says Mimi Hoang, Ph.D., a psychologist in LA. They also have higher rates of alcoholism and suicidal thoughts. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. While there are, of course, plenty of happy, healthy bisexuals, as a group, they are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety than straight or gay women, according to the U.S. When these assumptions are combined with other prejudices against bisexual women - they can't be monogamous, they don't want to "make up their minds," they're into kinky sexual experimentation - it puts them at risk for some dangerous health problems. Also, "men expect us to have no sexual boundaries," Walkley says. The belief that bisexuality is "just a phase" is only one of the common prejudices. Yet many say they feel misunderstood or judged. who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, more than half of them are bi. As a group, we get thrown by the wayside and forgotten about." "There's this idea that bisexuals have control over their emotions and enter into relationships with one gender or another when it suits them. "There was a lot of bi phobia within the group," Walkley says. But her announcement to her campus's LGBT group fell flat. Walkley, 29, of Phoenix, author of Queer Greer. "Coming out as bisexual my junior year of college felt as if a huge weight was off my shoulders," remembers A.J.
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