“Although Bisexuals Have Always Been Part Of Lesbian And Gay Movements And Communities, They Have Often

If you give $100 to a homeless person, they'll be in shock by your generosity. They'll feel guilty taking such a ridiculously large amount of money from you.

But if you give $1,500 to your landlord every month, next year they'll demand more unless the law literally says they can't.

Meanwhile, people demonize the homeless person as a "freeloader" while respecting the landlord.

“Despite the almost crushing weight of my family’s and society’s requirements, the one thing I have never felt is heterosexual.”

- Sharon, Bisexual Lives

“I am married and monogamous. Not much of a bisexual you say. Yet my bisexuality influences my perception and my decisions. More than having sexual relations with both genders, bisexuality is a mind frame, a reference point from which to view the world. Being bisexual has more to do with potential than actuality.”

- Amanda Yoshizaki, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Erika Kamano

“But if it rejects us, the gay movement loses more than numbers and strategic force. It also loses another opportunity, similar to that offered by other “sexual minorities,” to re-examine its commitment to sexual freedom rather than to mere interest-group politics. What would it mean for the gay movement to acknowledge that some people experience their sexuality as a lifelong constant, others as a series of stages, some as a choice, and many as a constant flux? It would certainly mean a drastic reworking of the standard categories which have grounded gay politics over the last decade. And it might mean a renewed commitment to the revolutionary impulse of gay liberation, which, believing that homosexual desire is a potential in everyone, insisted that “gay” is a potentially universal class, since sexual freedom for all people is the ultimate goal of our struggle.”

- Lisa Orlando, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out