Summary: <p>This week marks Bisexual Awareness Week – a week to celebrate the bi-plus community and help bring light to the issues that bi-plus individuals face.</p> <p>The bi-plus community – which includes bisexual, pansexual, and omnisexual folks, among others – is <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/bisexual">the largest population within the LGBTQ </a>community. But among other issues, bi-plus folks disproportionately struggle with physical and mental health issues. According to the Bisexual Resource Center, bi-plus people face <a href="https://biresource.org/mental-health/">even higher rates of depression and anxiety</a> than lesbians and gay men.</p> <p>And for the first time, the Biden Administration hosted a Bisexual Health Equity Roundtable. Yesterday, 15 <a href="https://www.outclique.com/biden-administration-hosts-first-bisexual-health-equity-roundtable-bi-community-leaders-share-stories-stats/">bi-plus healthcare policy experts and advocates</a> met with federal agency officials at the Department of Health and Human Services to discuss the health disparities facing the bisexual community, and made policy recommendations to address these issues.</p> <p>We spoke with one of those advocates, <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/KierraDC">Kierra Johnson</a>, the Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force.</p>
