How to Use bisexual in a Sentence

bisexual

adjective
  • The colors of the bisexual flag are pink, purple, and blue.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Gressier is bisexual, and at the time this was known only to close friends and colleagues.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • More gay and bisexual men are now able to donate blood.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Now, a research team in China is the first to have completed such a study of gay and bisexual men.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Across age groups, 51% of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults have used a dating site or app.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Still, the vaccines have been in short supply as gay and bisexual men clamor for shots.
    Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • But Krouse is bisexual, and knows the assistant should have asked.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • At age 14 or 15, Teran came out to Belkis — first as gay, and then later as bisexual.
    Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Most of all, there’s the season’s focus on Nick’s struggle to come out as bisexual.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The old rules were far more restrictive in screening out gay or bisexual men.
    Christina Jewett, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Later in 2021, the FDA launched a study of gay and bisexual men to determine whether the rules could be further updated.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • For more than 30 years, policies in the United States have banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood.
    Scott Jelinek, STAT, 5 Feb. 2023
  • On Twitter, many hailed Heche as one of the first publicly bisexual stars in Hollywood.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The men worked in finance or real estate and the women were vaguely bisexual.
    Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • There was about the same percentage of gay or bisexual pirates as your own workplace, but it was not discussed and it was considered to be a crime.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Zuniga, who is bisexual, has been with her partner for about four years.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Younger, and lesbian, gay and bisexual users were more likely to find lasting relationships on the apps.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • On the album, the singer takes on the character of Ziggy Stardust, a bisexual rockstar from outer space who tries to inspire a hopeless Earth.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Chloe Green, a bisexual teen who moved from Southern California with two moms, is a rival of Shara, the daughter of the principal.
    Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In a 2018 cover story for Net-a-Porter, the actress came out as bisexual and spoke about having a supportive household.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
  • New rules from the Food and Drug Administration that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood are now final.
    Liz Essley Whyte, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
  • Still the vaccine supply is limited and DPH plans to prioritize the group that has been most affected by the virus, bisexual and gay men.
    Ahjané Forbes, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Gay and bisexual men were also more likely to have reported STDs.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • If finalized, many gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships would be able to donate blood for the first time in decades.
    Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Baldwin is a lesbian, Sinema is bisexual, and Portman’s son is gay.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The guideline is specific to the group that has been most studied — gay and bisexual men and transgender women who had a STD in the previous 12 months and were at high risk to get infected again.
    Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are nearly 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth.
    Alex Wagner, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Chicago’s cases appeared mostly in gay men and bisexual men, though a growing number are in straight people as well.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Scruff is a platform commonly used by gay and bisexual men seeking to meet up with other men, officials said.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That ban ended in 2015 when the FDA recommended that gay and bisexual men wait one year before making a donation.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022

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