{"id":3391,"date":"2016-05-11T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/144193914928"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:06:06","slug":"ten-things-you-didnt-know-and-didnt-care-to-know-about-being-bisexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2016\/05\/ten-things-you-didnt-know-and-didnt-care-to-know-about-being-bisexual\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things You Didnt Know (and Didn’t Care To Know) About Being Bisexual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten Things You Didnt Know (and Didn’t Care To Know) About Being Bisexual<\/a>: <\/p>\n

wetwareproblem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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bisexual-community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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haveagaydayorg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ten Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Bisexuals<\/p>\n

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  1. Bisexual men are 50 percent more likely to live in poverty than gay men<\/li>\n
  2. Bisexual women are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as lesbians<\/li>\n
  3. Bisexual men and women are at least one-third less likely to disclose their sexual identity to their doctors than gays or lesbians<\/li>\n
  4. In comparison with lesbians and gays, bisexuals have a higher lifetime prevalence of sexual victimization.<\/li>\n
  5. Forty percent of LGBT people of color identify as bisexual<\/li>\n
  6. Bisexual women are almost six times more likely than heterosexual women to have seriously considered suicide, and four times more likely than lesbians<\/li>\n
  7. Bisexual men are almost seven times more likely than heterosexual men to have seriously considered suicide, and over four times more likely than gay men<\/li>\n
  8. Bisexual employees are eight times as likely to be in the closet compared to lesbian and gay counterparts<\/li>\n
  9. Fifty-five percent of bisexual employees are not out to anyone at work<\/li>\n
  10. From 2008 to 2012, only $5,000 in grants were awarded to bi-specific projects or bisexual organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [Sources: The Williams Institute<\/a>, Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations<\/a>, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey<\/a>, Sexual Research and Social Policy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    we\u2019re here, we\u2019re queer and we\u2019re a lot more valid in our anger than you\u2019d like to admit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Read this list before you say that biphobia is just homophobia one more fucking time.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ten Things You Didnt Know (and Didn’t Care To Know) About Being Bisexual<\/a>: <\/p>\n

    wetwareproblem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n

    bisexual-community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n

    haveagaydayorg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n

    Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Bisexuals<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Bisexual men are 50 percent more likely to live in poverty than gay men<\/li>\n
    2. Bisexual women are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as lesbians<\/li>\n
    3. Bisexual men and women are at least one-third less likely to disclose their sexual identity to their doctors than gays or lesbians<\/li>\n
    4. In comparison with lesbians and gays, bisexuals have a higher lifetime prevalence of sexual victimization.<\/li>\n
    5. Forty percent of LGBT people of color identify as bisexual<\/li>\n
    6. Bisexual women are almost six times more likely than heterosexual women to have seriously considered suicide, and four times more likely than lesbians<\/li>\n
    7. Bisexual men are almost seven times more likely than heterosexual men to have seriously considered suicide, and over four times more likely than gay men<\/li>\n
    8. Bisexual employees are eight times as likely to be in the closet compared to lesbian and gay counterparts<\/li>\n
    9. Fifty-five percent of bisexual employees are not out to anyone at work<\/li>\n
    10. From 2008 to 2012, only $5,000 in grants were awarded to bi-specific projects or bisexual organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      [Sources: The Williams Institute<\/a>, Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations<\/a>, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey<\/a>, Sexual Research and Social Policy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      we’re here, we’re queer and we’re a lot more valid in our anger than you’d like to admit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Read this list before you say that biphobia is just homophobia one more fucking time.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}