Despite a third from millennials identifying as neither gay nor straight, bisexual men and women are significantly less likely to be out to their family, friends, and colleagues than their gay and lesbian peers.

In fact, 2019 Pew Search findings showed that only 19% of bisexuals report being out to most or all of the important people in their lives, whereas 75% of gay and lesbian adults say the same. Roughly one-quarter of bisexual adults (26%) are not “out” to any of the important people in their lives, compared with 4% of gay and lesbian adults. These numbers are speculated to be even lower for bisexual men, since, as Pew Research reports, “Bisexual men face less social acceptance than bisexual women, gay men and lesbians.”

Many folks trust negative stereotypes in the bi men: they have been unable to being monogamous, more likely to cheating, indeed “only homosexual,” or maybe more planning to spread STIs. Bi boys deal with what is also called double discrimination, maybe not perception acknowledged of the both upright otherwise homosexual organizations. Continue reading