“Gaydar” is an almost universal concept. Most people, whether they are part of the LGBT community or not, know what it means. Even in a world where it’s becoming much more accepted and common to be a femme lesbian or a butch gay man, it’s not considered preposterous to claim you have a fairly good gaydar. Beyond looks, cultural and relationship references plus general “spidey-sense” seem to cover the rest. However, the idea of its bisexual equivalent – sometimes referred to as “bi-fi” – is less talked about.
Over at Biscuit (thisisbiscuit.com), a website for bi women which I founded a couple of years ago, we’ve been conducting a survey for the past month which so far shows that 32% of respondents say they have no bi-fi at all, 30% have one sometimes, 30% report rarely having one and just 8% are normally right when they guess someone might be bi.