international
We are Bi+ Nederland, the Dutch equality organization for bi+ people and bi+ inclusion. While our main focus is on the Netherlands, we are growing our international work by bringing the international bi+ community together, translating documents and articles, and participating in and contributing to international (advocacy) events.
This part of our website is a work in progress.
bi+ world meetup!
Want to meet bi+ people from around the world? Join the Bi+ World Meetup! It’s online.
resources
Read a selection of our articles in English.
In an ideal world, people give each other space to be themselves in how they want to experience love, lust, desires and relationships. In an ideal world, everyone is encouraged and supported in this rather than restricted. Of course, within the frameworks of mutual consent, respect and equality. This is what a bi+ inclusive society looks like.
Achieving a bi+ inclusive society requires attention to three norms that can be limiting for bi+ people:
- the monosexual norm: you are attracted to ‘the same’ or the ‘other’ sex (gay/heterosexual);
- the binary male/female norm: there are two genders (male/female);
- relationship norms: relationships are exclusive, monogamous and always consist of two partners.
Our vision is that by 2030, bi+ is seen as a self-evident, positive and equal sexual orientation in the Netherlands.
highlights
bi+ people and work
For Bi+ people and work – an exploration, we have mapped out the experiences of bi+ people at work. The exploration also provides insight into promising approaches to increasing bi+ inclusion at work.
Press release Bi+ Nederland: First ever parliamentary letter on bi+ equality
On June 28th 2023, the House of Representatives received a letter from Minister Dijkgraaf about the equality of bi+ people. It is the first time that this group of about 1 million people who are attracted to more than one gender has received this kind of political attention in the Netherlands.
Press release Bi+ Nederland: Dutch people with bi+ feelings and experiences say: take our sexual orientation seriously!
In 2020, Bi+ Netherlands commissioned a collaboration of 10 prominent Dutch researchers in the field of LGBT+ topics to investigate how people in the Netherlands with bi+ feelings and experiences are doing.