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Learn Data About Queers: Understanding the Range of Plurisexual Experience

The process of naming one’s identity, and defining it, is powerful and important. Having others understand, acknowledge, and respect it is also key to obtaining and receiving information and services that meet one’s needs, and being treated with respect. New research just out explores the various ways non-monosexual people – people who identify as bisexual, pansexual, and sometimes queer, among other identities – describe their sexual identities.

From the responses collected from participants, researchers found four central themes that arose across bisexual, pansexual, and queer identifying respondents when describing their identities–

labeling sexual identity

explicit use of binary/nonbinary language

distinctions of attraction, and

identity transcendence.

Both similarities and differences were found in each theme, across the identity groups. These findings also inform the authors, and others who engage in future research, in further exploring when generalizing or grouping the experiences of people who identify as one of these three identities may be helpful. In addition, the findings also help clarify when doing so may instead cause misunderstandings in grasping the range of experience of folks who identity in ways that are non-monosexual. (We’re not gonna lie – we also want to put in a word to encourage you to read all the research the lead author and on this study and her colleagues do. We’re big fans of her work and the work of the Sexual and Gender Identity Research Lab at Towson University! They are champions of respectfully, carefully and sensitively exploring research areas that are often overlooked, ignored, or conflated when it comes to orientation, identity, attraction, behavior, and relationships!)

Learn Data About Queers is our bi-weekly post by Luca Maurer about interesting, pertinent, and cool data about queers that we likely don’t get info about but should!