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Katrika Since: Jul, 2009
#76: Jul 20th 2012 at 9:31:31 AM

Hmmm. The only (possible) example of a bisexual character portrayed positively that hasn't already been mentioned is Tip from Skin Horse, who was shown as identifying as straight and then hooking up with another man in a later storyline. But a lot of things about Tip are a bit fuzzy, like his gender identity and whether he's a bisexual who vastly prefers women or a straight man with a sexual attraction to only one man in particular, and while Tip is a protagonist, he's certainly promiscuous.

The Kinsey scale was also mentioned in the comic, but not where Tip ranks on it.

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Gemini13 My Own Page, Woohoo! from Narnia Since: Jul, 2012
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#77: Jul 27th 2012 at 8:27:54 AM

I agree about the Glee thing. It was positively horrid of Ryan Murphy to do that. He acts affronted, as though it would be the most horrible thing ever if Blaine was bi.

Sometimes I think that a number of both gay and straight people just view bisexuality as a joke, and that's why they don't respect bisexuals as valid.

edited 27th Jul '12 8:29:02 AM by Gemini13

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