Colours & Meanings Femininity Outside of the binary Masculinity About The Polysexual Flag was designed in 2012 by a Tumblr user named Samlin, to represent the Polysexual community. Samlin deliberately designed the flag to incorporate three horizontal stripes, with magenta at the top and blue at the bottom, to be like the Bisexual and Pansexual […]

In electronics, it describes alternating current or direct current respectively, and as such in Queer slang, came to describe someone who is both “AC” and “DC”, that is, somebody who is both “heterosexual” and “homosexual” – a bisexual. See also: bats for both teams.

a person who experiences romantic, but not necessarily sexual, attractions to multiple, but not all genders. A panromantic person may not necessarily be polysexual.

the assumption that people are monosexual: that is, solely attracted to one gender; the assumption that people are either gay or straight until shown otherwise.

an alternative term for bisexual erasure.

shorthand for the multisexual spectrum, or multi-gender attraction spectrum, describing the wide variety of bisexual+ identities.

the spectrum of bisexual+ identities; the spectrum of multiple-gender attraction.

the idea that bisexual+ people should be excluded from Queer spaces and venues, typically due to them not being “gay enough”, typically, but not exclusively, when they are currently in an opposite-sex couple – or a coupling that people perceive as heterosexual. Such biphobic discourse has also included the idea that the visibility and acceptance […]

the romantic and/or sexual attraction and behaviour related to bisexual+ individuals; topics related to bisexual people, distinct from discussions related to homosexuality.