Keeping Bisexuality Alive: Maintaining Bisexual Visibility in Monogamous Relationships

This article draws on data from focus group interviews with bisexual-identified women who are in long-term monogamous relationships with men, and it explores the ways one can attempt to be visible as a bisexual through the creation of a ‘bisexual display.’ The focus here is on such displays for a limited audience—a small group of people, close friends and family, or even just within intimate relationships. Through these limited displays, the actor often has more control over how the message is perceived and if it is perceived correctly, and this can be a significant way of keeping bisexuality ‘alive’ for the individual who is not ‘behaviorally’ bisexual in terms of current sexual activity.