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This article is premised on critiquing the idea that bi+ people – that is, those with multiple gendered attractions - have 'straight-passing privilege.' This assumed straight-passing privilege suggests that bi+ people are not equally affected by homophobia and heteronormativity when compared with lesbian and gay people. This article aims to demonstrate that this notion of straight-passing privilege is harmful in understanding bi+ people. To explore these arguments, this article uses literature relating to passing and identity management to understand how bi+ specific identities relate to these theoretical concepts. Through a sociological lens, this article argues that the idea of straight-passing privilege neglects the real circumstances of bi+ people, who experience safety and wellbeing concerns and presumed privileges because of these assumptions. It is correct that bi+ people may be able to pass as straight in certain circumstances, as may many lesbian and gay people, but the understanding of this as a privilege fails to account for the difficulties that anyone living outside of a heterosexual norm experiences. Rather, bi+ people are subject to biphobia and bisexual invisibility/erasure that impacts their ability to be 'out' at all—leaving them ontologically incom-prehensible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book review discusses "Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth" by Ritch C. Savin-Williams. The author aims to understand and define bisexuality in terms of attraction, behavior, and experience. The book explores various questions related to bisexuality, such as why more individuals have bisexual feelings or behavior than identify as bisexual, and whether bisexuality differs based on race, ethnicity, social class, and geography. The author presents diverse experiences of bisexual youth and argues that young people are leading us into a "post-identity era" where labels are less important. The book also addresses intersectionality and includes data on the experiences of bisexual people of color. However, the review criticizes the author's grouping of different sexual and gender identities under the "bisexual" umbrella, as well as the problematic categorizations of bisexuality. Overall, the review acknowledges the book's contribution to understanding bisexuality but raises concerns about certain aspects. [Extracted from the article]

Analysing survey data from 1,304 LGBTQ + young people in Australia collected in 2016, this paper considers key distinctions between the experiences of bisexual and pansexual participants, and lesbian and gay participants in relation to social media use and aspects of connection, harassment and mental health. Presenting quantitative data, illustrated by qualitative extracts, we found broad similarities in motivations for using social media and how participants connected to peers and communities. There were some statistically significant differences, however, in respondents' motivations for using social media and who they connected with on these platforms. Importantly, bisexual and pansexual participants reported more negative experiences of harassment and exclusion across all major social media platforms when compared to their lesbian and gay peers. Bisexual and pansexual respondents also reported poorer mental health experiences. These findings speak to the different impacts of discrimination and oppression that young people experience in everyday life. There is a need for focused attention on bisexual and pansexual young people in academic, policy and youth-work domains. Young people will benefit from more substantial school-based education on LGBTQ + identities - beyond the experiences of gay and lesbian people - to 'usualise' varieties of difference in gender and sexual identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]