Dabbling and experimenting. Playing both sides. Promiscuous, traitorous, closeted, wanting the “best of both worlds”, relationship-wreckers or confused. Oh, and if you enter a long-term monogamous relationship, you’ve “finally made your decision”.

Bisexual people face numerous stereotypes and negative assumptions, and since he was a teen who realised he was attracted to people of different genders, Anthony Lekkas has heard them all.

Anthony Lekkas Credit:Eddie Jim

But growing up in a community where sexuality wasn’t discussed, he didn’t even have the language to describe how he felt.

“I had this double, secret life,” says Lekkas, now 42. “I had a very strong desire to seek out sexual and romantic partners of other genders. But it never occurred to me to tell anyone about that, I was fearful of rejection and discrimination.”