List of media portrayals of bisexuality

The portrayal of bisexuality in the media reflects societal attitudes towards bisexuality.

Film

 * Alexander (2004) (bisexuality presented as a social norm)
 * All Over Me (1997)
 * Art School Confidential (2006) (Audrey)
 * Auto Focus (2002)
 * Basic Instinct (1992) (Catherine Tramell - insatiable, untrustworthy, and homicidal)
 * Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
 * Les Biches (1968)
 * Borstal Boy (2000) (sexuality portrayed as fluid but can be socially problematic)
 * Brokeback Mountain (2005) (sexuality portrayed as fluid but socially problematic)
 * Butley (1974) (Butley - uncommitted, emotional failure)
 * Cabaret (1972)
 * Chasing Amy (1997) (sexuality portrayed as fluid but can be socially problematic)
 * The Color Purple (1985) (bisexuality portrayed as a simple fact with no value judgements)
 * Confusion of Genders (2000)
 * Death in Venice (1971) (Aschenbach - seen as homosexual cripple and failure)
 * De-Lovely (2004) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (Sonny - real bisexual, portrayed realistically)
 * Face to Face (1976) (Bisexual seen as symbol)
 * Femme Fatale (2002)
 * The Fox (1967)
 * Frida (2002) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Grindhouse (2007) (Dr. Dakota Block)
 * Henry & June (1990) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Imagine Me & You (2005) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Kinsey (2004) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Les temps qui changent (2004)
 * The Libertine (2005)
 * May (2002)
 * Midnight Express (1978) (controversial, film replaces consensual affair between prisoners with a fictionalized rape)
 * My Own Private Idaho (1991) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Portrait of a Marriage (1990) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Savage Nights (1992)
 * Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
 * Sobreviviré (I Will Survive)
 * Something for Everyone (1970)
 * Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Swimming (2002)
 * Teorema (1968) (The Visitor - a symbol, sexuality portrayed as fluid with no value judgements)
 * ''Three of Hearts (1993)
 * Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
 * Velvet Goldmine (1998) (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * The War Widow (1976)   (Amy - seen as a lesbian)
 * Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
 * Women in Love (1969)
 * Y tu mamá también (2001) (sexuality portrayed as fluid but sometimes socially problematic)

Literature

 * Advise and Consent
 * American Gods (Sam)
 * Ancient Evenings
 * Bye-Bye (Rosie)
 * The City and the Pillar (bisexuality as the most "natural" human state)
 * Claudine novels
 * The Color Purple
 * The Corrections
 * Cry to Heaven
 * The Dispossessed
 * Drawing Blood (Zack - promiscuous, but able to commit)
 * Dusty Answer
 * The Fox
 * The Front Runner (Harlan Brown - homosexual but formerly married to a woman; Vince Matti, identifies as gay but still sleeps with women)
 * Goldfinger (Pussy Galore - a lesbian until she falls in love with Bond)
 * Giovanni's Room (David - Vacillating, weak, neurotic; Giovanni - villain, killer)
 * How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theatre
 * "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood"
 * The Left Hand of Darkness
 * The Last of the Wine
 * The Lost Language of Cranes
 * Lost Souls (Zillah - sexually driven; Nothing - young, lonely, loving)
 * The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon
 * The Metaphysical Touch
 * Milk and Cookies
 * The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
 * The Neanderthal Parallax (All Neanderthals considered bisexual)
 * The Passion
 * The Persian Boy
 * Portrait of a Marriage (True story of Vita and Harold Nicolson, a bisexual couple)
 * "The Sea Change"
 * Time Enough for Love (Bisexuality considered the norm)
 * Two for One--a novel about having choices
 * While England Sleeps
 * Wicked and its sequel, Son of a Witch
 * Women in Love
 * Woman on the Edge of Time
 * Young in One Another's Arms

Comic books

 * Anima
 * Batman (Poison Ivy)
 * Captain Marvel (Marlo Chandler and Moondragon)
 * Doom Patrol (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Hellblazer (John Constantine)
 * Lost Girls
 * Marvel 1602
 * Spider-Man (Electro)
 * Starman (sexuality portrayed as fluid)
 * Strangers in Paradise
 * Supergirl (Sexuality portrayed as fluid but socially problematic)
 * X-Factor (Multiple Man's duplications occasionally exhibit alternative sexual desires)
 * X-Men (Mystique and Destiny (as originally intended by Chris Claremont) - apparently a committed couple)
 * X-Statix / X-Force (Doop)

Television

 * 24 (Mandy - terrorist)
 * Bob and Rose (Bob - apparently gay, though finds the only female he's attracted to is Rose)
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Willow Rosenberg, identifies as lesbian. Possibly Angel, Spike and Andrew)
 * Degrassi: The Next Generation
 * Dirt (Leo Spiller - in denial of homosexuality? And Julia Mallory, "only when stoned")
 * Doctor Who (Captain Jack Harkness- brave, self-sacrificing)
 * Drawn Together (Foxxy Love, Captain Hero)
 * Family Guy (Lois Griffin)
 * The L Word  (various, sexuality portrayed as fluid but can be socially problematic)
 * The Midnight Caller (episode "After it Happened"/1988 - spreading AIDS from the Gay community to straight women)
 * Nip/Tuck (Quentin Costa, possibly Christian Troy and Matt McNamara)
 * The O.C. (Alex Kelly (The O.C.) and Marissa Cooper)
 * One Tree Hill
 * Oz (Chris Keller, homicidal sociopath)
 * Queer as Folk (Hunter, Lindsay - sexuality portrayed as fluid but can be socially problematic)
 * Roseanne - (Nancy Bartlett, Beverly Harris)
 * Sex in the City (Samantha Jones)
 * Six Feet Under (Russel - confused, lonely, Keith Charles - primarily gay)
 * Skins (Tony Stonem - narcissist, sociopath, primarily straight)
 * South of Nowhere
 * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Jadzia Dax)
 * Torchwood (Jack Harkness, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones, though all characters sexualities intended to remain fluid)
 * Will & Grace (Karen Walker)
 * Xena (Xena and Gabrielle)

Music

 * "Bi" by Living Colour

Theatre

 * Butley
 * Gemini (Francis - treated sympathetically, seen in positive light)
 * Rent (Maureen - unable to commit)
 * Rocky Horror Show
 * The Shadow Box (Brian - bisexuality simple fact)
 * Torch Song Trilogy