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This thesis identifies large gaps in psychological literature surrounding the intersecting identities of plurisexual women and examines how discourses of sexual identity – and more specifically bisexuality and plurisexuality – shape plurisexual women’s social and intimate lives, and constructions of their sexual identity. However, little research has explored bisexuality alongside new plurisexual identities and the lives of people who identify with them. Further, recent movements within queer spaces have led to a shift in the languaging around bisexuality and attraction to multiple genders bisexuality being only one identity under the plurisexual umbrella. As a result, bisexual people face suppression and erasure of their sexual identity. At the same time, rigid categorisations that views sexual identity as a heterosexual-homosexual binary remains entrenched in our social and academic contexts. The current study adds to a growing literature on sexual minority stressors among bisexual people, a population that continues to be understudied.īisexuality is becoming increasingly visible as the diversity of sexual identities is becoming more recognised in mainstream Anglo-Western societies.

Our results suggest that broad community involvement may be protective for internalized binegativity, but findings should be considered in light of a lack of well-funded, local bisexual communities. There was no interaction between type of definition and type of community involvement. Involvement in LGBQ + communities, but not bisexual communities, was associated with lower internalized binegativity. Multivariate regression analyses showed that those with spectrum definitions, which acknowledged a nuanced understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality, reported lower internalized binegativity than those with binary definitions, which described sexuality as consistent with mainstream norms. We examined LGBQ + and bisexual-specific community involvement, definitions of bisexuality, and internalized binegativity among an online sample of 816 bisexual adults. Further, how bisexual people define their identity may be related to internalized binegativity, especially given the historical invisibility of bisexuality in mainstream media and recent debates about the definition of bisexuality within LGBQ + communities.

Although community involvement is protective for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer+ (LGBQ+) people, bisexual people may benefit more from bisexual-specific communities than LGBQ + communities because of monosexism. Women who complied with men's requests reported significantly more positive attitudes toward lesbian women, bisexual women, and same-sex marriage than women who did not.īisexual people can internalize stigma from both heterosexual and gay/lesbian communities, which often occurs in the form of monosexism, the belief that people should only be attracted to one gender. In addition, men who requested same-sex behavior reported more sexist and homonegative attitudes than men who did not request this behavior from others. Men were more likely than women to report having asked or encouraged others to participate. Women were significantly more likely than men to report having been asked to participate in same-sex sexual behavior. Results indicated that women and men differ in how they engage in, and interpret their experiences with, same-sex performativity.

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Participants were 219 women and men who completed an online survey consisting of open-ended questions about their experiences with same-sex performativity and a series of attitude scales. The present study examines experiences of same-sex performativity among heterosexual women and men in relation to attitudes toward women, LGBQ individuals, and same-sex marriage.

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