With the onset of the AIDS epidemic bisexual men were (and still are) stigmatized as AIDS bridges, or vectors.27 There were widespread fears that bisexual men were catching AIDS in the kinky homosexual world and bringing it to the respectable heterosexual world. Bi men were seen as a threatening connection between the dirty and the clean, the bad and the good, the queer and the straight. As such, bi men were seen as a threat to heterosexuals everywhere.
