Huh...  interesting.  Both in the fact that 'hey, what's the big deal/good for you, touting that aspect of all those famous people', and also just in keeping it in the awareness of being an okay thing.   But pardon me for being a little 'uh.. what?' at Fox's quote - you like girls and guys, and admit it's hypocritical, but don't want to be with a girl who also likes 'dirty' guys?  Nice being 'equally loving' of either sex!   But yeah, Susi, sometimes I've wondered, too!

I don't know most of them, but some of the ones I do know are well known to be bisexual, I thought.  So yes, Alan Cumming would have fitted in just fine!

I don't know why there are more women - it could be that women are more out, or that women are more likely to be bisexual, or that women are more likely to identify as bisexual, or even just that people think better of female rather than male bi celebrities so they are more public.  

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Interesting, tonnaree. I wonder why it is that there are hardly any men in the list. Could it be that women are more open about their sexuality?
 

I think so but that is surely only one aspect of it. One first hand experience: I have met many gay men who do not really believe in bi-sexuality and who tell you that you need to make up your mind sooner or later. Gay women on the other hand seldom do that. Just my experience, not meant as a generalisation.

Here is a nice video on bisexuality and common prejudices:

http://oneredbuttonhole.tumblr.com/post/145203123628/bbcthree-can-you-not-just-make-up-your-mind

Yeah, I think there's some of that.  Some men like to watch women kiss, but they're attracted to them and want to be with them, too.

The irony, of course, is that there are people who say you can't be bi, that you have to make up your mind and pick one...and if those people who are gay, they are the very people who say it's not a choice to be gay.

I agree that more people need to understand that these things are on a spectrum and are much more fluid that they realize or that words allow.

I did not know those people could be said to represent those different ways of thinking, but I guess that would help to remember that there are those different ways of thinking.
For me it's hard to say whether there are more people who fall in between the two or whether straight is still the majority...it's hard to tell since people's ways of expressing themselves have changed over time, as well as different laws or cultural things that change what people say or what they don't tell other people, or just different levels of understanding and ways to express or describe experience.

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On area we have made a lot of progress with is that kids are coming out more and more at a young age.  They still have struggles to face, but at least hey will never spend decades of their lives pretending to be something they are not. 

Newer generations are also more accepting of the idea of sexuality on a spectrum.  They don't seem to feel everyone must have a label carved in stone.

@ Besleybean, you're showing your age with the Boy George and Tom Robinson analogies!   But I know exactly what you mean (and I'm showing my age too!). 

Oddly enough I found it fairly easy coming out some decades ago.  I had some problems in my life at the time, but that wasn't one of them!  It wasn't so easy for my girlfriend, and I think there are all sorts of factors involved (mostly to do with the people around you, I suppose).  But I agree that things have improved generally, both on the sexuality and gender fronts. 

I agree that a lot of people are somewhere "in between", and I think a lot of it depends on definitions.  I've tended to say that if you think of yourself as gay = predominantly same sex attraction, straight = predominantly opposite sex, and bi = no obvious predominance.   But that's very personal, and I know people see it differently, and that any opposite sex attraction means you're bi rather than gay, etc.   I think it's very much up to people to define themselves, if they want to (it's not always necessary unless you want people to know - or you're filling in those monitoring forms you get!). 

(I can't see the video as I'm not on tumblr).

Yes.  I think at any age, you can discover something new, though I think we all find it at some point.  Heck, there are a lot of us who grow up assuming we're straight until something happens or we get to thinking and realize something, whether it's having certain thoughts (or not having certain thoughts) or falling in love with someone you weren't expecting to fall in love with or feel attracted to.