In addition to being the most likely to identify as first-time home buyers,
bisexual sellers were the most likely to identify as first-time home sellers at 50 percent.
"This study fills the gaps in the research, expands our knowledge about sexuality and gender gaps in political attitudes and contributes to new ways of thinking about the perspectives of mostly heterosexual and lesbian, gay and
bisexual people," said Worthen, associate professor in the OU College of Arts and Sciences.
"And I wondered, 'Well, it's technically true, I am
bisexual. So why is it such an embarrassing thing?
With the recent and consistent findings of high rates of poor mental health in the Western
bisexual population (Bostwick, Boyd, Hughes, & McCabe, 2010; Bostwick et al., 2007; Conron, Mimiaga, & Landers, 2010; Eisner, 2013; Hughes, Szalacha, & McNair, 2010; Jorm, Korten, Rodgers, Jacomb, & Christensen, 2002; Koh & Ross, 2006; Leonard et al., 2012; Li, Dobinson, Scheim, & Ross, 2013; Persson, Pfaus, & Ryder, 2015; Pompili et al., 2014; Steele, Ross, Dobinson, Veldhuizen, & Tinmouth, 2009), there has never before been such urgency to gain a deeper understanding of bisexuality.
According to a study conducted by the New York University,
bisexual men have a higher risk for heart disease compared with heterosexual men across several modifiable risk factors.
Meanwhile, there are 55,000 OAPs that class themselves as 'other' - which means respondents did not consider themselves to fit into the hetersoexual, gay, lesbian and
bisexual categories, but didn't want to refuse to label themselves at all.
The
bisexual community has tried to adapt to this difficulty in self-definition by incorporating several sub-populations into the relatively new catch-all term "bi+," which includes polyamorous, pansexual, and asexual people.
Many studies examining health disparities in LGBTQ populations lump LGBT or LGB people into one category As increased research is being done in this area, people who identify as
bisexual are being studied as a separate group.
12 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Surveillance Summaries, the study found that when compared to heterosexual high school students, lesbian, gay and
bisexual students are up to three times more likely to report being forced to have sexual intercourse, experience dating violence and be bullied on school property.
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Lesbian and
bisexual women are more likely to have a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) than heterosexual women.
Lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) research has found that LGBTQ people report poorer mental and sexual health outcomes compared to heterosexual and cisgender people.
"I can understand people being gay, but I just can't wrap my head around people being
bisexual. To me that's a sign of deep confusion.
