Beyond Gay and Straight: Ten Things to Know About Bisexuality

Keke Palmer encouraged us to open our minds.

My Love Is Not Necessarily Your Love - From openly-bisexual femcee Azealia Banks to Scream Queens star Keke Palmer, whose new music video “I Don’t Belong to You” depicts her ending up with a woman, many stars are showing us that sexuality isn't binary. As Palmer said when speculation about her own identity dominated the headlines this week, “I’m making the rules for my self, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label.”  So what is the 'B' in LGBT all about? Here are ten things to know about bisexuality. (Photos from left: Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Primark, Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images for NYLON)
It's Not a Phase - Bisexuality used to be thought of as a “transitional” identity, for people who were not quite ready to accept being gay or lesbian. However, studies have shown bisexuality is just as real as being gay or straight and can be a constant and important part of one’s identity. (Photo: Rainer Holz/Westend61/Corbis)
One Love  - It is a common belief that because bisexuals are attracted to more than one sex or gender that they must have a difficult time maintaining monogamous relationships. This is a myth, there are many bisexual folks in committed relationships. (Photo: Laura Doss/Corbis)There Is More to Bisexuality Than You Think - While sexuality was once understood in very binary terms —meaning someone was either all the way straight, or all the way gay — actually, sexuality exists more on a spectrum, both within each individual, as someone’s attractions can shift within their life. In fact, on the Kinsey Scale, which rates sexuality along a spectrum of 6 (0 being fully heterosexual and 6 being fully homosexual) 11.6% of males, and 7% of females between ages 20-35 ranked at 3. Sexuality is not as strict as we think! (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

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My Love Is Not Necessarily Your Love - From openly-bisexual femcee Azealia Banks to Scream Queens star Keke Palmer, whose new music video “I Don’t Belong to You” depicts her ending up with a woman, many stars are showing us that sexuality isn't binary. As Palmer said when speculation about her own identity dominated the headlines this week, “I’m making the rules for my self, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label.”  So what is the 'B' in LGBT all about? Here are ten things to know about bisexuality. (Photos from left: Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Primark, Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images for NYLON)

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