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The aim of this research was to explore bisexual people’s lived experiences of intimate relationships. Research has identified a number of negative perceptions of bisexual people, many of which relate to relationship practices. We were particularly interested in how bisexual people build, maintain, and negotiate their identities and relationships within this context of biphobia and bisexual marginalisation.

Bisexual voices are largely silent in existing research, and qualitative interviews were ideally suited to generate diverse and in-depth narratives of bisexual people’s lived experiences of bisexuality and relationships. Twenty participants, who self-identified as bisexual and in a relationship(s), were recruited through a variety of sampling strategies. Thematic analysis was chosen to identify patterns in the data.

These participants discussed how bisexual people are (mis …