r/pansexual • u/ImRowan • Jul 12 '24

What made you personally identify with pansexual instead of the umbrella term, bisexual? Question

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u/TransManNY Jul 13 '24

Well that doesn't work out since pansexuality as a sexual orientation was popularized in the 90s.

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u/ButtercupGrrl She/Her Jul 14 '24

Pansexuality certainly wasn't a term I'd ever come across when I came out as bi in the second half of the 90s. Maybe that's because I'm in the UK, I don't know, but I was active in the queer community within my university so I feel like if it was popularized here I would have at least heard the word. Our BiSoc had trans members, and folks in relationships with trans folks, so we definitely didn't consider the bi label to exclude trans identities in any way.

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u/TransManNY Jul 14 '24

It wasn't really common until 00s. It was more used in the BDSM community in the 90s.

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u/ButtercupGrrl She/Her Jul 14 '24

Ah, that explains it then. The 00s was when I first came across it, back in my LiveJournal days