“While My Feelings Of Sexual Attraction Toward A Man May Or May Not Occur Concurrently With Feelings

“(Bisexual) stereotypes result from the ambiguous position of bisexuals, poised as we are between what currently appear as two mutually exclusive sexual cultures, one with the power to exercise violence repression against the other.”

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

So damn hot

“Nothing needed to matter, whether I was straight or lesbian, masculine or feminine, butch or femme, because I was none of it. The point was to remain in that state of realizing that I was none of it and would never have to be.”

- Chandini Goswami, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

“Up against criticism from conservatives and fundamentalists that the gay lifestyle, if not a sickness, was at least a sin and was wilfully “chosen,” gay strategists instead asserted that they were “born that way” and could not change even if they wanted to. It thus became popular, as well as politically expedient, to argue and assume that people are either one or the other. Related to this, an important question is whether one can demand rights for a “choice.” As long as sexuality is seen as fixed at birth or soon after, gay legal theorists who base their gay civil rights arguments on monosexual assumptions about sexual orientation can argue that gays should be a protected class and deserve civil rights on that basis. No one is currently arguing in the courts that same-sex love can also be a choice and, like religion, also deserves defence on that ground.”

- Loraine Hutchins, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisibly Minority

“The fear is that if so many of us who are bisexual are also, and have also been, and will also be its (supposed) opposite, then bisexuality cannot exist ‘in its own right.’

To see that bisexuality exists as a real, distinct sexuality is essential for our survival and well-being - but it can also lead into a bisexual orthodoxy about what it means to be a ‘real bisexual’ which is alienating and destructive.”

- Jo Eadie, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, History, Lives

“I see bisexuals as the wanderers, because we can traverse the ground of the female world and also of the male world. Being able to do that allows us to glean from both of those gendered experiences… We traverse wide territories, allowing for the depth of exploration that doesn’t exist when you stay in one place. That has both its stresses and its benefits. When you traverse a large ground, you get the depth of the experience, but a certain lack of security.”

- Lilith Finkler, Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities