December 23, 2024

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Carrie Bradshaw — that beautiful heterosexual ditz — once mused that bisexuality is “just a layover on the way to Gaytown.” It’s been over two decades since that infamous Sex and the City episode, and as it turns out, people like the views here. Some have booked a permanent stay. Others, after a long tenure in Gaytown, are now wading into our luxurious waters. Welcome: Drop your bags and come explore.

In 2024, bisexuality became a cultural destination. Moviegoers turned up to theaters to watch Kinsey moderates wreak havoc on their relationships, a trend that started with last year’s steamy marriage drama Passages and French procedural Anatomy of a Fall and extended into this year’s sapphic neo-noir Love Lies Bleeding. The spring’s buzziest film, the tennis romp Challengers, is that meme fantasy about having two boyfriends who are also boyfriends with each other realized onscreen. Meanwhile, TV comedies created ludicrous plot points out of sexual fluidity: A cruise-ship medical staff had a drunken threesome on Dr. Odyssey; a clueless straight girl microaggressed her bi boyfriend with attempted pegging on The Sex Lives of College Girls; and a zoomer comedian narrowly avoided victimization by a gay Republican with a piss kink on Hacks. Novels about wanton queers who more or less “just ended up with people,” to quote the protagonist of Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!, swept group chats across the country. “All the bi bitches know the fuck is going down,” proclaims Tyler, the Creator, on one of the biggest tag-team rap smashes of the year.

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This Christmas, experience BABYGIRL starring Nicole Kidman, in a fearless turn as Romy, a high-powered CEO whose affair with a magnetic intern, Harris Dickinson, awakens a dangerous game of seduction and power that will leave audiences buzzing.

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That's it for us for 2024. We're taking some time off for the holidays and will return January 6. Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy New Year!

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