Where did people get the idea that bisexual people are partly heterosexual? Well, two decades earlier Kinsey had published his Kinsey Scale, which encouraged exactly this kind of thinking. Telling people to choose a number between “0—Exclusively heterosexual” and “6—Exclusively homosexual” had a profound impact on how scholars, and queer people themselves, talked about sexuality.25 I presume Kinsey hadn’t considered that this might be politically weaponized against people who fell in the middle of the scale, but that’s exactly what happened.
