A: Bisexuality is the capacity for physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction to more than one gender. Bisexuality is a distinct identity that is both a part of and apart from heterosexual society and the lesbian and gay community. 

Q: Do bisexuals have to have partners of both genders to be satisfied?

A: Bisexuality is the potential, not the requirement, for involvement with more than one gender. Whether or not someone chooses to act monogamously is separate from whether or not they are bisexual, heterosexual or gay. There are monogamous bisexuals, just as there are monogamous heterosexuals. 

Q: Can bisexuals form long-term committed relationships?

A: Bisexuals are as capable as anyone of making long-term relationship commitments. Many bisexuals are living in committed life partnerships. Bisexuals live a variety of lifestyles, as do gays, lesbians and heterosexuals. 

Q: Isn't bisexuality a phase a transition to being lesbian or gay?

A: Some people go through a transitional period of bisexuality on their way to adopting a lesbian, gay or heterosexual identity. For many, however, bisexuality remains a long-term orientation. In fact, research shows that homosexuality and heterosexuality are often transitional phases in the coming-out process for bisexual people. 

Q: Do bisexuals spread AIDS?

A: Bisexuals have been targeted as scapegoats by people who think of AIDS as being a "Gay disease". One thing spreads AIDS: taking someone else's bodily fluids (like blood or semen) into your body. The AIDS virus neither knows nor cares what your sexuality is. Safer sex will go a long way towards helping stop the spread of AIDS. 

Q: Do bisexuals want special rights?

A: Bisexuals want to live their lives without the threat of discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation. To ensure their basic civil rights, bisexuals are seeking equal protection under the law. 

Q: Do some bisexuals identify as heterosexual? What about lesbian or gay?

A: All human sexuality studies have found that there is a notable disparity between what people do (sexual behavior) and what people call themselves (sexual identity). Many people are unaware that identifying as bisexual is even an option. (Significantly, no studies have measured the incidence of bisexual feelings and fantasies that have not been acted upon.) Many bisexual behaving people do not identify as bisexual for a number of reasons including fear of discrimination and social stigmatization from both heterosexual society and the lesbian and gay communities. 

Q: Do people choose to be bisexual?

A: For bisexuals the choice is to live openly and honestly or to be silenced by the invisibility of the closet. No one really knows the origins of sexual orientation, including bisexuality. However, whether it is biologically determined or not, sexual orientation should not determine one's access to full participation in society. 

Q: Should the lesbian and gay community be inclusive of bisexuals?

A: Bisexuals are part of the generic definition of "gay" in the same way that lesbians are. Because heterosexuals lump them all together, bisexuals encounter the same kinds of harassment and discrimination as gay, lesbian and transgender people. Bisexuals lose their jobs, homes, lose their children and are discharged from the military when they are honest about their sexual orientation. Bisexuals have always been a part of, as well as apart from, the lesbian and gay community. It is important that bisexuals are included to accurately describe the larger community. 
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