This week marks Bisexual Awareness Week – a week to celebrate the bi-plus community and help bring light to the issues that bi-plus individuals face.

The bi-plus community – which includes bisexual, pansexual, and omnisexual folks, among others – is the largest population within the LGBTQ community. But among other issues, bi-plus folks disproportionately struggle with physical and mental health issues. According to the Bisexual Resource Center, bi-plus people face even higher rates of depression and anxiety than lesbians and gay men.

And for the first time, the Biden Administration hosted a Bisexual Health Equity Roundtable. Yesterday, 15 bi-plus healthcare policy experts and advocates met with federal agency officials at the Department of Health and Human Services to discuss the health disparities facing the bisexual community, and made policy recommendations to address these issues.

We spoke with one of those advocates, Kierra Johnson, the Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force.