2016, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin (→ISBN):
One of the most common misconceptions about bisexuality is that it's some kind of stepping-stone on the way to coming out "all the way," as gay and/or lesbian. This pernicious stereotype, sometimes referred to as “bi now, gay later,” is often used to warn straight people away from dating bi folks. […] If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.
2018, Michael Amherst, Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire, Watkins Media Limited (→ISBN)
The cliché of “bi now, gay later” is founded on several, unproven presumptions around sexuality. […]
2019, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (→ISBN), page 24:
For example, many people in lesbian and gay communities still say things like “bi now, gay later” which implies that bisexuality is a phase on the way to identifying as gay or lesbian.
2021, Estella Ferraro, Wilful Blindness: On the Relationship of Identity, Agency and Personal, Springer Nature (→ISBN), page 163:
When John explained his process of coming out he referred to the process as “the usual sort of bi now gay later thing” which he justifies by making “it more acceptable.”
1996, Brett Beemyn, Michele Eliason, Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Anthology, NYU Press (→ISBN), page 209:
A lesbian colleague reported that she'd heard this referred to as the “Bi-Now-Gay-Later Plan.” One of my interviewees used this discourse of incorporation […]
2003, E. Lynn Harris, A Love of My Own, Anchor (→ISBN), page 259:
He was on the bi now, gay later plan," Dru said, laughing.
2008, Marc Acito, Attack of the Theater People, Crown Publishing Group (NY) (→ISBN), page 26:
I guess you could say I was on the "bi now, gay later" plan.
Amber Ault (1996) identified four techniques of neutralization through which some lesbian feminists express their hostility toward bisexual women. [...] the second technique: incorporation. Bisexual women are lesbians who are not yet aware of their lesbian identity or are “on a bi now gay later plan” (Ault, 1996, p. 314). Marginalization acknowledges that bisexual women […]
