Bisexual…

Unlike with the words gay, lesbian, and transgender, Google’s search engine provides no predictive drop-down menu for the word “bisexual.”

Sarah Prager, author of a Change.org petition against Google, said the move is another example of “biphobia” and “bi-erasure.” It had about 1,600 signatures on Friday morning. “Finding communities and forums and realizing there are other people like you going through the same things — you can’t put enough value in that. It’s life saving,” said Prager, creator of Quist, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer iOS app. “So when you start to type something in, and you don’t think that there is anything out there, you might think there is no one else out there like you, and you don’t think there are other people who care about you, and we don’t want to put barriers on life-saving resources.”

Prager’s petition is here.