15 Movies That Focus on Actual Bisexual Characters

Bisexual might make up the vast majority of LGBTQ+ people in the United States, but that doesn’t mean we see that reflected on our screens. In fact, despite bisexual people accounting for 58.6% of queer and trans adults in the country, according to the latest Gallup poll, there is a woeful dearth of movies that center bisexual characters. Per a GLAAD report on LGBTQ+ representation in film, only 24% of LGBTQ+ characters on screen were bisexual. And if you do the math on how many queer and trans characters there are on television and film these days – 489 LGBTQ regular characters according to GLAAD, though the organization says that will likely shrink due to the cancellation of queer shows — that isn’t a lot of bisexual people on screen! Likely, this is connected to bi erasure, an existing phenomenon that renders bisexual people invisible and their struggles minimized. Frequently, bisexual erasure involves seeing bi people as “just gay” or “just straight” depending on who they’re dating, which unfortunately is a common trope that extends to television and film. But as Them alumni Catherine Mhloyi writes, bisexual representation doesn’t have to suck or at the very least should avoid these harmful tropes. This brings us to the bisexual film canon.The canon of, well, canonically bisexual movie characters isn’t as robust as the bisexually-coded ones — if you need an example of de facto bisexual films, think Twilight, Foxfire or The Materialists — but below we’ve provided a list of bisexual movies, de jure. These films have bonafide bisexuals on the screen, not just hints of sexual fluidity that leave you wanting. The criteria includes characters that are openly bisexual or at least openly dating or romantically involved with people of multiple genders. This is far from a comprehensive list of every bisexual movie and is more of a living document that can grow over time as we get better representation. — Quispe LópezThe Wings (1916) - YouTub