Whenever I ask someone why it is we aren’t addressing bisexuality or bisexual issues the response is always because there aren’t enough people to bother… its not as important. National studies of sexuality have such low rates of homosexual respondents, that as far as they are concerned the bisexual quotient may as well not even exist. But we do exist. I needn’t tell you how methodologically flawed national studies are… particularly in this political climate. In addition to our being unable to conclusively define what bisexuality actually is… let alone how to identify individuals as bisexual. In the end what it comes down to is that there aren’t enough people identifying themselves as bisexual, but bisexuality does and will always exist.

The idea behind these Visi-Bi-lity shirts is to show that we do in fact exist. That we cannot be overlooked so easily just because we can’t be seen… just because we can’t be counted… we are not invisible!* Wearing this shirt alone is making a powerful social statement. Just yesterday I wore mine to Millennium Park and the feeling of knowing that everyone I passed was thinking about the message on my cheap little t-shirt was exhilarating. I don’t think most people actually think about bisexuality until it directly effects them, and often then its associated with something negative. So lets get them thinking about it as part of something positive! Lets show Chicago that bisexuals and bi-friendly people exist!

* For those of you that may not be familiar with the term bisexual invisibility: it typifies how once an individual is involved in monogamous relationship they are then assumed to be either heterosexual or homosexual, dependent upon their partner’s gender… thus leaving biphobia unchallenged and reinforcing the visibility and viability of the dominant binary system.