“I don’t like gay and lesbian people’s ignorance about bisexuals. It’s rare to find a politically savvy bisexual person who isn’t involved in the gay and lesbian community, but many gays and lesbians have no knowledge of bisexual people. We’re still laughed at, trivialized, seen as purveyors of disease, seen as riding on the coattails of the gay rights movement, as if we weren’t there all along.
To me, these attitudes toward us come from ignorance and self-hatred. If somebody feels really good about who they are, they don’t feel threatened by what other people are…
Heading and saying “gay, lesbian, and bisexual” is music to my ears. Because the more unity we achieve, the more we put aside petty differences, the more strength we have.”
- Dr Maggi Rubenstein, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
“The person who believes (that there is no such thing as a distinct bisexual identity) does not deny the reality of bisexual experiences or feelings, but rather denies them any meaning by locating them as a temporary aberration in an otherwise heterosexual or homosexual individual.”
- Amanda Udis-Kessler, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives
ALEXA DEMIE LEOPARD LIMO (Archive LL11)
“Although bisexuals have always been part of lesbian and gay movements and communities, they have often not been visible as bisexuals in these groups. Consider, for instance, these little-known historical facts:
A bisexual man was one of the key organizers of the first national March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979. He also cofounder the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays and led a delegation of black gays to meet with White House staff while Carter was President.
A bisexual Washingtonian was one of the first women to write about living women in the national feminist news journal, off our backs, in 1972.
It was a bisexual man who conceived and spearheaded the successful national “gaycott” of Florida orange juice in response to Anita Bryant’s homophobic “Save Our Children” campaign in Dade County, Florida, in the late 1970s.
A lesbian-identified bisexual ex-suburban housewife ran for Vice President on a bisexual/lesbian/gay civil rights platform during the 1984 Democratic Party convention in San Francisco.
In May 1989, a bisexual veteran from New England, representing the National Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Veterans Association, was the first out-of-the-closet veteran invited to testify before Congress on behalf of all lesbian, gay, and bisexual veterans.
But even in these high-profile “out” positions, bisexuals often continued to be perceived as gays and lesbians by both the gay rights movement and the rest of society.”
- Loraine Hutchins, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority
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"This book contains a queer scientist..."
"This book contains a trans adventurer..."
"This book has a bisexual detective..."
Okay, but is it good? Because as a member of the alphabet crowd, I don't care if it's lgbtq friendly when I'm gonna be bored shitless by a mediocre plot.
Erika Kamano