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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/38345
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/38345
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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First, homosexual or bisexuality is not necessarily something that enters into her everyday life.

A good way to give clues toward that is to devise situations in which she can defend **_others_** that are homosexuals or bisexuals, have somebody (unimportant) comment on homosexuality as a "choice" or "disease" and have your character disagree, vehemently to calmly. Find ways to show her attitude toward female homosexuality in particular.

Nobody is going to care if your girl is sexually attracted to guys (and bisexual females are not necessarily attracted to _effeminate_ guys, just like homosexual girls can be attracted to either butch or girly girls), as far as most of society is concerned, heterosexual attraction is the norm.

The only real issue, socially, is that she is sexually attracted to women too. You need to devise situations in which she can, effectively, declare her belief that woman-on-woman sex is perfectly normal, and if anything it is the culture that makes women deny their natural urges.

This is a version of "show don't tell". Don't ever have her "come out" as bisexual, find a scene in which it becomes obvious to the reader she just IS bisexual, and attracted to a woman.

Or she drops some history with an old friend you manufacture.

> "So how's the love life?"
> 
> "Dead. I broke up with Steven, he was getting into weird drug shit. Then I was with this girl Karly for six months, then nothing this year. Did you stick with Mark?"
> 
> "Oh please. Mark was three guys ago. I'm thinking of getting on some site."

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