ABSTRACT
At first glance, movies would seem ideal for educating others about bisexuality. In presenting visual and/or aural evidence of same-and other-sex attractions, they can make a compelling case for a sexual identity still much in dispute.1 After all, what could be clearer than a narrative depicting an erotic triangle of hetero-and homosexual intrigues or a documentary engaging participants whose sexual histories include women and men? Yet the apparent ease with which the medium disseminates information is itself problematic, if not outright deceptive. We as viewers are invited to conflate what is legible with what is intelligible, to (mis)take an act of perception for a fiat of knowledge.2 One danger is that viewers are likely to give as much credence to fictional characters enacting cultural myths and stereotypes about bisexuality as to social actors speaking about their experiences as bisexuals. The critical distinction we routinely make between imagined worlds and historical realities can become blurred in a medium that accords truth value to what is shown and therefore known.
