ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that addressing the knowledge gaps around bisexuality and ageing can carry benefits for people of other sexualities in life and for academics and practitioners interested in ageing or sexuality, by encouraging more sophisticated thinking about all sexual identities. Wider societal change reducing biphobia and legitimising bisexuality as an authentic sexuality would doubtless contribute to reducing knowledge gaps around bisexual ageing. Many reasons might be suggested for why so little is known about bisexual ageing compared to lesbian and gay ageing. Brotman et al. found that bisexual participants were more likely than lesbian or gay participants to experience difficulties with health care providers because of those providers' lack of understanding of their sexuality. The chapter discusses understandings of bisexuality which do allow for its validity but frame it in ways which have the effect of minimising bisexuality's significance and prevalence.
