Bisexual erasure or bisexual invisibility is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or reexplain evidence of bisexuality in history , academia , the news media , and other primary sources. Bisexual erasure may include the assertion all bisexual individuals are in a phase and will soon choose a side, either heterosexual or homosexual. One reason for this is the belief that bisexual individuals are distinctively indecisive. Bisexual erasure often results in bisexual-identifying individuals experiencing a variety of adverse social encounters, as they not only have to struggle with finding acceptance within society but also within the LGBT community. Another common variant of bisexual erasure involves accepting bisexuality in women while downplaying or rejecting the validity of bisexual identity in men.

Bisexual often shortened to Bi refers to someone who is attracted to two or more genders. This is most commonly men and women, though it does not have to be. Bisexual people can be attracted to any genders. It was found that most people fall somewhere in the category and are believed to have "varying bisexual responses". However, people who rank anywhere between are most likely to be recognized as bisexual, as they are often not one extreme or the other.

The definition is more akin to pansexual , which was coined in Revealed on December 5th , the bisexual flag was designed by Michael Page to represent and validate bisexuals in the LGBT community and wider society. The flag depicts three coloured horizontal stripes with the middle slightly narrower. Page describes the meaning of the three colours as follows: "The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex, blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex, and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction across the gender spectrum.

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