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hypnox posted...

Or the author of the article doesn't view Bi as a real thing that some people think for reasons that are beyond me.

It actually used to be a thing that a lot of homosexuals would deny that bisexuality existed at all, because from their point of view, it weakened their own socio-political position. The logic was that anyone who identified as bi was either gay and too afraid to fully come out, or were gay and hadn't yet fully accepted their own sexual identity so were still clinging to the delusion of being at least partially straight. Some gay people could be pretty petty and abusive towards people claiming to be bisexual ("Just come out already, you coward!").

There's been a tradition of whatever new letter gets added to the LGBTQIBBQ+ acronym tends to generate a bit of backlash at first. There were gay and bi people who objected to trans being included because they saw it as a different issue entirely and thought it weakened and trivialized their own struggles. Some gay people disagree with the idea of gender fluidity or "gender queer" as definitions. And so on.

It's not a universal backlash, and it tends to die down over time (especially once the next controversy kicks in), but it's definitely an undercurrent that runs through LGBT+ discussions.
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