Yes, this is the tenth annual Celebrate Bisexuality Day! (I didn't know, either! No one tells me these things...) But thanks to Louise
My apologies to all of my favorite Bs, including my darling daughter Keori... got so damned busy with all of the stuff here in Maine today and almost forgot!!!
over at Pam's place, now I know.
And, following the link that led me to a link...etc. from Pam's (not sure how I got there) Amy Poehler's "Parks and Rec". had a bisexual triad in the season opener.
April (played by Aubey Plaza), the intern, introduces her boyfriend Derrick (Blake Lee), and then Derrick's boyfriend Ben (Josh Duvendeck). The scene is about 5 minutes into the show (see it in the second clip below).
When Poehler's character Leslie doesn't quite understand, April explains, very matter-of-factly, "Derek is gay, but he's straight for me and he's gay for Ben and Ben is really gay for Derek and I hate Ben."
Derek says, "It's really not that complicated."
Follow the link and you can see the clip where Amy accidentally married two gay penguins. (To each other, I mean, not to her. That would really be too much for network TV) Really, follow the link. I've never been a Parks and Rec. fan, but it's fun. I don't know who this guy Mike is, but I like what I've read so far. Here's his take on Celebrate Bisexuality Day. And here's his "Am I Bisexual" diary.
In the latter, Mike mentions the Kinsey scale which some folks find useful.
Rating Description
0 Exclusively heterosexual
1 Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2 Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 Equally heterosexual and homosexual; bisexual*.
4 Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5 Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6 Exclusively homosexual
X Asexual, Non-Sexual
Now, try as I might, I can't think of any possible discussion of human bisexuality without including a pole in it somewhere, the Venn diagrams just don't allow it. So, herewith the pole.
*Again from Mike:
It doesn't mean that you have to be equally attracted to both, and it doesn't mean that you have to have regular sex with both genders to be happy or satisfied.
From my point of view, being bi covers 1 through 5. As Woody Allen said:
"The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night."
so widening Alfred's definition to include the 1-5's is all good.