Thread by @MetroOpinion

'Men often approach me to discuss their bisexuality, I'm happy to be out and proud,' writes Megan Barton Hanson #BiVisibilityDay

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'On a night out with a female friend of mine, a man came up to us and said we looked cute.

'So I turned to her and semi-jokingly asked if she wanted to have a threesome with him.'

'She had a boyfriend so didn’t want to, but that was the first time I had opened up to someone about my desire for both men and women – even if I ended up playing off my idea as just a drunken suggestion.'

'Since then, I’ve been on Love Island and publicly come out as bisexual.

'I try not to pigeon hole myself and often call myself pansexual interchangeably, but there’s one thing I’m absolutely sure of – bisexual people need to be more visible.'

'The first bisexual representation I saw on screen wasn’t until I was in my teens when I watched the film Cruel Intentions.

'When I saw Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) teach Cecile (Selma Blair) how to kiss, my first thought was how hot it was, how soft and perfect it looked.'

'At that point, I was still fancying men.

'That’s the thing with being a bisexual woman – it’s not like you don’t feel any attraction to men as well. I used to wonder: Does everybody feel this way? Am I just being greedy?'

'By the end of my teenage years, I heard about the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour and the fact that there was a same-sex relationship in it. So I absolutely had to watch it.

'Around the same time, I had a female friend in college that I had such a crush on.'

'A few years after leaving school, I started working as a stripper and that’s when I started fully exploring my sexuality.

'After the drunken threesome suggestion happened, there was no going back.'

'I ended up downloading a gay dating app and arranging a date - but before I did a girl my brother was dating bluntly ended up asking me: ‘Please tell me you’re not a big fat lesbian?'

'My heart just dropped and I couldn’t believe how homophobic it was.'

'Thankfully, I still went on the date and I’ve tried not to let comments like that phase me since.

'It's why am out and proud.'

'Since appearing on Love Island, I came out publicly in 2019 and I’ve grown in leaps and bounds - I now get asked for advice and I'm lucky I have this platform.'

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