qwertybard:

slurhater:

seriously though bisexuality being defined as attraction to men and women is a heterosexual’s definition of bisexuality actual bisexual groups and organizations have been defining it as attraction to two or more genders or same and other genders since the nineties and plenty of nb people actually id as bi and refusing to accept how we define ourselves is so absurdly biphobic and heterosexist and jfc it’s 2014 can other queer people fucking realize and acknowledge this

The purple stripe on the bi flag is meant to represent attraction to nb genders and the bisexual manifesto published in Anything That Moves includes the lines “Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature … In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.” That was published in 1990. It’s older than a lot of people here, including me, and older than terms like “pansexual” and “polysexual” by at least a decade. Bi history is important.

Bisexual communities have also been close allies to transgender communities for much much longer because of overlapping experiences of exclusion.

And like, once more:

representation of non-binary genders

is in the fucking bisexual flag

Do you think gay and lesbian people are going to put explicitly trans-inclusive symbolism in their flags any time soon? I highly doubt it. (and I don’t really care whether they do. I’m just tired of people pretending that bisexual communities are not trans-inclusive when it’s in their fucking flag).