Let’s take a look at a country that today is often treated as a shining beacon of LGBT+ liberation, the Netherlands. Homosexuality was decriminalized there in 1811, and it was the first country in the world to legalize gay marriage. When it comes to bisexuality it was also ahead of the game. Dutch scholar and coordinator of the Netherlands Transgender Network, Elise van Alphen, examined the emergence of bisexuality and found that bisexuality as an identity was already a core part of the Dutch homosexual movement in the postwar period.
