Bisexual individuals face identity denial and erasure and qualitative analyses suggest that it may be gendered, such that people stereotype bisexual women as truly heterosexual and bisexual men as truly gay. Across three studies (total N = 787), we examined perceptions of bisexual targets’ attraction patterns. Participants rated the attraction of either a female or male bisexual target to both the same gender/sex and opposite gender/sex. An internal meta-analysis revealed that heterosexual, lesbian, and gay participants all perceived bisexual men as more attracted to men than to women. No such pattern emerged for bisexual women. These differences between the perception of bisexual women and bisexual men were also reflected in the endorsement of an explicit measure of bisexual erasure. Our findings add to the understanding of the unique bias bisexual people face by showing that perceived attraction patterns may underlie the labelling of bisexual men as “actually gay”.

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双性恋擦除：双性恋女性和男性的感知吸引力模式

双性恋者面临身份否认和擦除，定性分析表明它可能是性别的，因此人们将双性恋女性定型为真正的异性恋，将双性恋男性定型为真正的同性恋。跨越三项研究（共N = 787），我们检查了对双性恋目标吸引力模式的看法。参与者评估了女性或男性双性恋目标对相同性别/性别和异性/性别的吸引力。一项内部荟萃分析显示，异性恋、女同性恋和男同性恋参与者都认为双性恋男性更喜欢男性而不是女性。双性恋女性没有出现这种模式。双性恋女性和双性恋男性的看法之间的这些差异也反映在对双性恋擦除的明确措施的认可中。我们的研究结果表明，感知到的吸引力模式可能是双性恋男性“实际上是同性恋”标签的基础，从而加深了对双性恋者面临的独特偏见的理解。