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Bisexuality remains the nearly silent B in the now well-known acronym LGBT. More recent additions, such as Q (queer), Q (questioning), I (intersex), and A (asexual), have only further obscured bisexuality’s communality with other sexual and gender identities. Within scholarly sociopolitical, philosophy, religious, and literary discourse; across the biomedical and social sciences and their empirical research; and among psychological professional organizations, until very recently and largely still, bisexuality has stood in the shadows compared with its more visible and outspoken L, G, T, and Q siblings (Layton 2000; Young-Bruehl 2001).

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