Gendered Anti-Bisexual Bias: Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Gay/Lesbian People’s Willingness to Date Sexual Orientation Ingroup and Outgroup Members

Are You Two Just Friends? Emotional and Sexual Infidelity Across Sexual Orientations

“…The lover sexuality preferences for bisexual women with female lovers (73.3% with bisexual girlfriends) may have less to do with their actual preferences than with research indicating that "lesbians have a more strongly negative impression of bisexual women than gay men do of bisexual men" (Conley et al, 2014). The lover sexuality preferences for bisexual women with male lovers (76.9% with straight male boyfriends) is consistent with Ess et al (2022) finding that "bisexual women, unlike any other group, preferred to date men outside of their sexual orientation group, rating heterosexual men over bisexual men" (p. 10). Published by IDEAS SPREAD…”

Sexual minority and religious majority: Nonreligious gay/lesbian people’s and cisgender heterosexual Christians’ evaluations of gay and lesbian Christians.

“…Participants responded to the following items using a 7-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree): "Christians have harmed gay/lesbian people," "Gay/Lesbian people have harmed Christians," "There is conflict between gay/lesbian people and Christians," "Gay/Lesbian people don't get along with Christians," and "Christians don't get along with gay/lesbian 7 We excluded bisexual, pansexual, and queer people from our nonreligious subsample because these groups of people might not view gay/lesbian people as an ingroup. Indeed, there are several examples in the research literature suggesting that gay, lesbian, and heterosexual people have different attitudes/perceptions toward gay/lesbian versus bisexual targets (see Burke & LaFrance, 2016Dodge et al, 2016;Ess et al, 2023;Matsick & Rubin, 2018;Mohr & Rochlen, 1999). For example, some of this research has shown that gay, lesbian, and heterosexual people perceive bisexuality as less stable, legitimate, and genuine than they perceive heterosexuality and homosexuality (Burke & LaFrance, 2016Mohr & Rochlen, 1999).…”

“…7We excluded bisexual, pansexual, and queer people from our nonreligious subsample because these groups of people might not view gay/lesbian people as an ingroup. Indeed, there are several examples in the research literature suggesting that gay, lesbian, and heterosexual people have different attitudes/perceptions toward gay/lesbian versus bisexual targets (see Burke & LaFrance, 2016, 2018; Dodge et al, 2016; Ess et al, 2023; Matsick & Rubin, 2018; Mohr & Rochlen, 1999). For example, some of this research has shown that gay, lesbian, and heterosexual people perceive bisexuality as less stable, legitimate, and genuine than they perceive heterosexuality and homosexuality (Burke & LaFrance, 2016, 2018; Mohr & Rochlen, 1999).…”

Does exposure to continuous and fluid theories of sexual orientation influence heterosexuals’ evaluations toward bisexual or gay/lesbian people?

“…It is possible that binegativity in men is more driven by the perceived illegitimacy of bisexual orientations in men (e.g., "bisexual men are merely gay men who aren't fully out") and thus more ameliorated by scientific information purporting to demonstrate the "realness" of male bisexuality. On the other hand, it is possible that binegativity toward bisexual men for women is more so/or additionally driven by other facets described in the literature, such as perceived in ability to commit or be satisfied in monogamous relationships or a belief in a tendency toward infidelity or spreading of sexually transmitted diseases (Ess et al, 2023;O'Leary et al, 2006). It is also possible that a ceiling effect was evident for women in our sample, who already tended to believe in the realness of male bisexuality, and thus movement on this dimension was only possible for male participants who harboured more doubt regarding the existence of bisexual men.…”