Blogging Bisexuals and the Coming-Out Process

Abstract

What role does blogging play for some bi people who are coming out? What do they write about, and how does and doesn't it help them? Although some of those blogging are able to be, and want to be, interested in joining some kind of real-world bi community, others are neither able nor interested. Yet more want to consider issues of sexuality before they take themselves out to that community. Whichever group they fall into, blogging can help individuals think through the issues involved with, hopefully, the support of some interested readers. This article looks at blogs that are active (at the time of BiReCon), and some have definitely or probably ended to look at how the writers negotiate the coming-out process. It argues that, though blogging can certainly help, it is the role of the reader and commenter on the blog that is key to the beneficial effect that blogs can have.

KEYWORDS:

• blogging
• bisexuals
• coming out

Acknowledgments

Sue George is a UK-based writer and editor, who has written on bisexuality since the late 1980s. Her book Women and Bisexuality (1993) was the first serious book on the subject to be published in the UK.