How to Use bisexual in a Sentence
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People who are bisexual often say they are attracted to genders like their own, as well as genders different than their own.
— Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 27 May 2021 -
In a 2017 tweet, Thompson claimed that Valkyrie was bisexual.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021 -
But about 80 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members do, as do about 84 percent of transgender people.
— Sarah Scoles, Wired, 28 May 2021 -
Rosaline is bisexual, and the novel grapples with that identity, particularly in the assumptions others make about her.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 June 2021 -
The colors of the bisexual flag are pink, purple, and blue.
— Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Gressier is bisexual, and at the time this was known only to close friends and colleagues.
— Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022 -
The film is told from the perspective of Nathan’s best friend, who is bisexual.
— NBC News, 26 June 2021 -
More gay and bisexual men are now able to donate blood.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Now, a research team in China is the first to have completed such a study of gay and bisexual men.
— Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 19 July 2023 -
Across age groups, 51% of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults have used a dating site or app.
— Robert Higgs, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Still, the vaccines have been in short supply as gay and bisexual men clamor for shots.
— Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 July 2022 -
But Krouse is bisexual, and knows the assistant should have asked.
— Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022 -
At age 14 or 15, Teran came out to Belkis — first as gay, and then later as bisexual.
— Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Most of all, there’s the season’s focus on Nick’s struggle to come out as bisexual.
— Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023 -
This is the first quiz with Joe Lycett, God’s perfect bicon (bisexual icon).
— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022 -
As health minister, one of O’Neill’s first acts was to lift the province’s ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood.
— Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 30 May 2024 -
The bisexual polyamorous male protagonist as its lead sang out and won the readers' hearts at the Gaming Mag too.
— Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021 -
The old rules were far more restrictive in screening out gay or bisexual men.
— Christina Jewett, New York Times, 11 May 2023 -
Later in 2021, the FDA launched a study of gay and bisexual men to determine whether the rules could be further updated.
— Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023 -
For more than 30 years, policies in the United States have banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood.
— Scott Jelinek, STAT, 5 Feb. 2023 -
In 1983, the FDA issued a lifetime ban on blood donations for gay and bisexual men.
— Cami Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2022 -
The bisexual pair reunites by accident in Europe, where both have ended up on the same food-and-wine tour.
— Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 -
On Twitter, many hailed Heche as one of the first publicly bisexual stars in Hollywood.
— Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022 -
Last Friday, LA county confirmed that some of the cases were among gay and bisexual men.
— Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 July 2022 -
The men worked in finance or real estate and the women were vaguely bisexual.
— Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023 -
Yet, there are many words that someone chooses to use rather than (or in conjunction with) bisexual.
— Kasandra Brabaw, refinery29.com, 5 July 2024 -
There was about the same percentage of gay or bisexual pirates as your own workplace, but it was not discussed and it was considered to be a crime.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2023 -
Zuniga, who is bisexual, has been with her partner for about four years.
— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023 -
The gay and bisexual men in their 50s and 60s who are now entering the prime demographic for prostate cancer also lived through the worst of the AIDS epidemic.
— Steve Kenny, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021 -
Next, the comic Alec Flynn, in a Cranberries T-shirt, argued that men should be permitted to claim to be bisexual as casually as women do.
— Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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