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At psychotherapy supervision one of my colleagues presented a male client who was in a sexual relationship with a woman but defined himself as gay. After some group discussion of whether the label ‘heterosexual’or ‘gay’was most appropriate for him, I suggested that there might be other possibilities if he wanted a description of his sexuality. The group appeared baffled until I offered:‘well I’m bisexual’.

Bisexuality has been acknowledged to be a silenced sexuality within several domains, including mainstream media (Barker et al., in press), lesbian and gay communities (Gurevich et al., 2007), sexology (Rust, 2000), and psychology and psychotherapy (Petford, 2003). Our own anecdotes above serve to illustrate the frequent overlooking of bisexuality as a potential identity position in both popular understanding and applied psychological contexts. Indeed, Firestein’s (1996)