History Main / EveryoneIsBi

* ''{{Concession}}'': not everyone is bi, but a large proportion of the cast are. Joel, Matt, Roland, Angie, Emily, and Chelsie are all described as bisexual on their cast pages.[[spoiler:Matt and Emily have only actually been seen interacting romantically with their respective same-gendered partners Joel and Kelly, but the others have all demonstrated at least some bisexual tendencies onscreen.]] Nicole (who is [[UnsettlingGenderReveal actually a male named Aaron]]), Cecil, and Kelly are gay. The other ten characters named on the cast page are heterosexual [[spoiler:counting Kate, who is a practicing pedophile whose personal harem is made up of male preteens, plus the male-to-female {{Transsexual}} Chelsie, though she also slept with the adult Artie and her own twin brother]] - so, not everyone, but a much higher proportion than real life. A remarkably high proportion of gay and bi characters show up in the randomly generated background character population as well.
** A few heterosexual characters have had homosexual encounters though, such as Artie's drunken foursome that included another guy.
** And recently [[spoiler: Rick]] let slip that he has had "hot gay sex" at least once, his girlfriend was not happy [[spoiler: despite the fact that she sleeps with women fairly often]].

** Also worth noting(maybe due to the fact you have to be pretty shameless and secure in yourself to to openly be a part of something like the MLP fandom as a adult) It's one of the few fandoms where slash isn't heavily frowned on and a few of the fandom OTPs are slash pairings.

* MenageA3 starts out with a varied cast of gay and straight guys/girls with one Bi girl. By now, every single named character (and plenty of one-off extras) has had at least two or three instances where they've shown more than a little attraction for both genders, with the exception of the landlady and the guy who stays indoors and thinks it's still the 80's.
** Pretty much every comic by the same author has this.

* ''TheSims'' -- For simplicity's sake, every Sim can romance any other Sim, at least as far as gender goes. There are some obstacles, but none of these are gender.
** The ExpansionPack ''TheSims2: Nightlife'' complicates things: positive romantic interactions increase a Sim's invisible attraction score to that gender, allowing better chemistry. Gender preference can also decay, so if your [[AnythingThatMoves Romance Sim]] flirts with male Sims all the time, they can suddenly stop being attracted to female Sims. Pretty weird, even for a game like ''The Sims''. Whereas if they flirt with both they will be attracted to both.

* ''FamilyGuy'' - Almost every, if not all characters has had bisexual experience on the show.

* According to [[http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gavrila/PAPS/Savolainen_Lehmann.pdf this article]] in ''Nature'', some scientists conclude that there is a gene that predisposes a person to homosexual behavior. Biologist Robin Baker has found that bisexual [[EvenTheGuysWantHim men]] and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer women]] [[SexAsRiteOfPassage start their sex lives]] earlier, have more heterosexual sexual encounters, [[ReallyGetsAround more sexual partners]] and have more reproductive success than heterosexuals. Therefore, the bisexual gene is more likely to be passed down to future generations.

* Save [[TwoferTokenMinority Pen]][[LipstickLesbian ny,]] this basically applies to the women in ''The Adventures Of Olivia'' as even if they haven't been ''seen'' making out with other women, it's more of a sense that they ''would,'' but there's only guy(s) around such as [[SpicyLatina Lupe]] pretty much saying so when she's in the middle of doing a gym trainer while [[ValleyGirl Sandy]] is riding hers and reach over to make out with each other then hooks up with [[HotAmazon JoMarie]] before [[CoolOldGuy The Admiral]] shows up to make it a threesome without issue. [[RuleOfSexy Basically, if you're hot, you're getting some, too as far as they're concerned.]]

* Recent studies measuring genital arousal tend to find non-zero arousal to all types of human sexual images. This is sometimes suggested to reflect situational embarrassment, but it could also have real implications for how our sexual responses work.

* Ancient Spartans were more or less required to be bisexual. A Spartan boy's first relationship was expected to be with an older man, who would act alternately as father figure and lover, and there were several laws regulating the nature of this relationship (such as "if a boy is courted by two men, and he chooses the richer, he has to pay a fine"). By contrast, a Spartiate would have an ArrangedMarriage with a woman he didn't know and be expected to consummate it in secret (though later they would be allowed to live together as a family). Things are less clear on the female end, but several hymns relating to women and their yearning for "choral leaders" exist..

* Freud said that humans have a predisposition toward bisexuality, but become monosexual through psychological development, while the bisexuality remains in a latent state. In other words, Everyone Is Bi.

This, needless to say, is hardly a case of TruthInTelevision. In the real world, many people can be attracted to either gender (or [[{{Asexuality}} neither]]), and if someone's previously expressed an attraction to their opposite gender, bisexuality is generally the safer naïve assumption. Many shows seem to be moving toward that paradigm, but the base assumption in TV land is still generally that you're either/or, and [[LowestCommonDenominator Joe Average's]] assumption is still that "[[DepravedBisexual bisexual]]" means AnythingThatMoves. Curiously, this is not all that different from how homosexual characters have been treated. "Educational" films like Sid Davis's ''Boys Beware'' (1961) suggest that [[AllGaysArePedophiles homosexuals are all child molesters]], and even modern gay men are often portrayed as [[AllGaysArePromiscuous willing to sleep with any and all consenting males]] (although this is probably due to the belief that AManIsAlwaysEager and AllMenArePerverts, since straight men are almost ''always'' portrayed as willing to sleep with any and all consenting females).

** This extends to the women, too. Hungary is a strong believer in GuyOnGuyIsHot, but in a volume 4 strip encourages [[GagBoobs Ukraine]] to wear a very {{Stripperiffic}} dress. Hungary is also a path in the Gakuen Hetalia game, [[GayOption with the playable character being Seychelles.]]

* An InformedAbility in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. In ''All-Consuming Fire'' Benny says that bisexuality is the norm in the 25th century (although she personally isn't). Subsequent books set in Benny's home era have offered no evidence of this.

* According to [[http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gavrila/PAPS/Savolainen_Lehmann.pdf this article]] in ''Nature'', some scientists conclude that there is a gene that predisposes a person to homosexual behavior. Biologist Robin Baker has found that bisexual [[EvenTheGuysWantHim men]] and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer women]] [[SexAsRiteOfPassage start their sex lives]] earlier, have [[ReallyGetsAround more sexual partners]] and have more reproductive success than heterosexuals. Therefore, the bisexual gene is more likely to be passed down to future generations.

* In AlanMoore's ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' the character of Orlando is definitely bisexual, but this makes sense because Orlando is an immortal who changes sex randomly and without warning. However, pretty much all of the female characters (be they historical or mythological) that Orlando spends any amount of time with are bi for Orlando. This includes Mina Murray, the heroine of the series, Fanny Hill, Venus (of course), Marguerite Blakeney and others. And when Orlando is a male, it's at least hinted at and also sometimes explicitly stated that many of his male companions are bi for him also.

** In ''The Sims 3'', inactive sims default to heterosexual unless the active sim performs a homosexual interaction with them. This can then result in an entire town of gay people.

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', everyone in the main cast is at the very least bi-curious. The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode that introduces Jack Harkness states that his omnisexuality is common for the century (51st) that he grew up in, in which the [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk]] [[BoldlyComing approach to first contact]] has been the norm for so long that species and gender lines have become muddled. As StevenMoffat explains, it's a future where the whole human race is pansexual. Of the Torchwood gang, Tosh and Owen are properly bisexual, Ianto is either just [[IfItsYouItsOkay bi for Jack]] or lying about not being into men who are not Jack, Suzie is seen snogging Gwen, and Gwen doesn't elaborate on which aspect of being kissed by various female villains weirds her out. (WordOfGod has confirmed that Gwen is also bisexual).

** You can probably just safely assume that everyone in a RussellTDavies show is bisexual unless explicitly stated otherwise. Davies has explicitly stated that he doesn't really believe in rigid definitions of sexuality, and that all self-identified straight people have at least minor gay tendencies and vice versa. StevenMoffat uses this trope a fair amount, too, though not as much as Davies.

* Choose two characters in all of fiction. There is a fic pairing those two. Now notice how gender was not specified in the prompt. That is because [[EveryoneIsBi everyone can be bi]] in FanFiction.

* Every female in ''CherryComics''.

* WordOfGod about the Literature/LiadenUniverse novels is that Liadens should be assumed to all be bi. We see several homosexual encounters but all the permanent arrangements we see on screen are heterosexual- unsurprising for a culture that puts huge weight on providing an heir.

* In TheCulture, considering that the line between species and gender is completely blurred and deconstructed, everyone just seems to go with what they like, no matter what that is. And considering that Culture humanoid citizens can change gender and move into non-humanoid bodies with multiple sexes and... Look, suffice to say that if you brought up sexual orientation to a culture citizen they'd presume you were from a very ''very'' backwards planet.

** In fact, Gurgeh from ''The Player of Games'' is considered bizarre because he's straight and has never changed his sex. A friend of his also seen as weird because she spends almost all of her time as female.

In videogames where you can choose your gender, this trope is increasingly common not out of any desire to make a particular statement about the characters, but because writers don't see any reason to cut off romance-related content just because of gender selection.

* In MarionZimmerBradley's ''{{Darkover}}'' series bisexuality is very much a social norm on the titular planet. In fact, in many cases it is actively encouraged, especially among adolescents who are too young to marry and same-sex relationships serve to help prevent teenage pregnancies. Also, as expectation of monogamy is rather lower on Darkover due to it having originally been a LostColony with a small initial population, even adults who are married may have ongoing extramarital relationships with people of the same or opposite sex. Because of the age of these works, this was sharply contrasted with the Terran Empire, which reflected more mainstream American social values of the time and thus, despite the setting being in the distant future, had mid-20th Century sexual values. Terrans frequently found Darkovan sexuality more than a little discomforting.
* In Jacqueline Carey's ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' and ''Kushiel's Scion'' series, every single d'Angeline character is bisexual. [[strike:Absolutely without exception]] [[MemeticMutation No exceptions]].
* In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Literature/TheTaleOfFive'' fantasy series, bisexuality is culturally universal in the world it takes place on.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series, the serf class on Photon can be inferred to be mostly bisexual - mostly out of having to cater to the whims of the Citizen class (lead character Stile mentions "consensual heterosexual encounters", implying there's been homosexual ones and possibly voluntary). There are however, only two verified bi characters (Tania and Tsetse - naturally both female and hot.)

* In ''MerryGentry'', pretty much all of the Fey are supposed to be openly bisexual. Merry herself is all about the heterosex, of course, so that she can [[AuthorAvatar reflect the author's own feelings]] about sex with another woman, which seem to be "ewww gross but that's actually kind of interesting".

* In S.M. Stirling's [[TheDraka Draka]] novels, the old 20th-Century genetically-unmodified-human Draka are straight, gay, or bi as the case may be (and with no shame or self-consciousness about their orientation ever); but the genetically-engineered New Race or ''Homo drakensis'' Draka, portrayed in ''Drakon,'' are all bisexual (and their sexual appetites always ravenous).
* AnneRice 's [[TheVampireChronicles vampires]] are functionally asexual, but there's a ''lot'' of erotic subtext to their interactions nonetheless.

** The same author's ''Cry To Heaven'' runs on this trope. The main (castrated) male character has love affairs with people of both genders, although his same-sex relationships are more numerous and generally more dwelt upon by the author. His two most lasting affairs are with another castrated man and a woman, respectively, and he thinks of both of them as the loves of his life at different points in the novel. He even carries on a sexual relationship with a cardinal in Rome, who (at first) justifies the affair with the church's belief that castration renders the person neither male nor female, and thus [[TooDumbToLive a loophole to rules about celibacy.]] It doesn't last.

* An astonishing number of the female characters in the ''Claudine'' stories are bi. This is shrugged off with the ignorant contemporary views of sexuality- as Claudine's husband says, "What you little animals do is charming and doesn't mean anything." It's another matter entirely if a man should be interested in both sexes.

* In Fiona Patton's ''TalesOfTheBranionRealm,'' pretty much everyone is bi, and this goes completely unremarked. There is even a Guild of Companions (a cross between bodyguard, courtesan, same-sex sexual partner, and spy) who are contracted to the nobility. The first book revolves around the Crown Prince's relationship with his mother -- she wants him to get married and have an heir, he would prefer to shack up with his Companion. He starts a civil war over this. His mother, BTW, has four Companions of her own.

* In Piers Anthony's ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series, the serf class on Photon can be inferred to be mostly bisexual - mostly out of having to cater to the whims of the Citizen class (lead character Stile mentions "consensual heterosexual encounters", implying there's been homosexual ones and possibly voluntary). There are however, only two verified bi characters (Tania and Tsetse - naturally both female and hot.)

* In DianeDuane's ''TheTaleOfFive'' fantasy series, bisexuality is culturally universal in the world it takes place on.

** Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar's BerserkButton was people saying that he had been the submissive partner in a relationship with the King of Bitynia. [[InsufferableGenius Cicero]] summed it up, when Caesar was pleading for Roman support of the man: