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Cahill, L 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-0862 and Perera, AT-M,
2025.
Sexual identity visibility, mental health, and body dissatisfaction in bisexual cisgender men: associations with straight and gay community bi-negativity.
Psychology and Sexuality.
ISSN 1941-9899
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Abstract
Bisexual cisgender men experience stigma from both straight and LGBTQ+ communities, yet the sources and pathways of harm are rarely disaggregated. We examined how bi-negativity from straight and gay communities relates to sexual identity visibility (outness), mental health and well-being, and body dissatisfaction. In a pre-registered study of UK-based bisexual cisgender men (N = 200; 80.5% White), participants completed measures of bi-negativity, sexual identity visibility, mental health and well-being, body dissatisfaction, and perceived gay community stress. Straight community bi-negativity was associated with poorer mental health and well-being, which in turn was associated with greater body dissatisfaction; no serial mediation pathway via sexual identity visibility emerged. Gay community bi-negativity showed no direct relationship to body dissatisfaction or mental health and well-being, but was positively associated with sexual identity visibility and indirectly linked to better mental health via increased visibility, contrary to our predictions. Perceived gay community stress did not moderate pathways from gay community bi-negativity. Findings show distinct routes by which dual-source bi-negativity influences bisexual men’s mental health and well-being and body image, underscoring the urgency of reducing straight community prejudice and supporting bisexual visibility.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Publication Title: | Psychology and Sexuality |
| Creators: | Cahill, L. and Perera, A.T.-M. |
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
| Date: | 19 November 2025 |
| ISSN: | 1941-9899 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1080/19419899.2025.2590708 DOI 2533033 Other |
| Rights: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Laura Borcherds |
| Date Added: | 25 Nov 2025 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2025 10:37 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54799 |
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