ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the issues which are more closely tied into cultural practices and understandings around bisexuality. It focuses on issues around identification, bi-negativity or biphobia, kin work, lack of support networks, gender relations and sexual practices. Many self-identified bisexuals hold the view that their identity is not dependent on their current relationship status or their sexual practice in any particular period of their life. Monogamous non-bisexual partners often create anxieties, if a bisexual person insists on maintaining a public bisexual identity. Differences in income and social and cultural capital create divisions in lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer families as much as in heterosexual relationships. Many bisexual people commit themselves to monogamous partnerships. Bisexuals who wish to be non-monogamous and polyamorous frequently have to negotiate a range of issues in their relationships. Common anti-bi sentiments complicate bisexual identification, bisexual coming or being 'out' and the maintenance of bisexual intimacies.
