admittedly bisexual

• billie joe armstrong
• djuna barnes
• helmut berger
• david bowie
• marlon brando
• kurt cobain
• margaret cho
• alan cumming
• sia
• miranda july
• jack kerouac
• frida kahlo
• iyari limón
• ma rainey
• peaches
• natalie portman, sort of ('I think it’s much more the person that you fall in love with—and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?' Rolling Stone, June 2002)
• anthony rapp
• pete shelley
• michelle tea
• alice walker

rumoured bisexual people who were not admittedly/openly bisexual during their lifetimes, but who lived somewhat queer lives or have since been proved to have had relationships and/or encounters with the same sex

• neal cassady, very likely 1 2
• tracy chapman, very likely 1
• bruce chatwin, very likely + possibly gay 1
• james dean, very likely 1
• marlene dietrich, very likely 1
• ralph waldo emerson, quite likely 1
• clark gable, quite likely 1
• greta garbo, very likely 1
• cary grant, somewhat likely 1
• katharine hepburn, somewhat likely but definitely a bit queer 1
• billie holiday, somewhat likely
• alfred kinsey, very likely
• katherine mansfield, quite likely
• carson mccullers, very likely
• margaret mead, very likely
• eleanor roosevelt, somewhat likely
• edna st. vincent millay, very likely
• anaïs nin, very likely
• edith piaf, somewhat likely
• marina tsvetaeva, very likely