Claiming the B in LGBT : illuminating the bisexual narrative

Summary: Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends with decades of misinformation stereotyping them as innately indecisive, self-loathing, and untrustworthy. Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table. This guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement fuses a chronology of bisexual organizing with essays, poems, and articles detailing the lived experiences of bisexual activities struggling against a dominant culture driven by norms of monosexual attraction, compulsory monogamy, and inflexible notions of gender expression and identity.

Record details

ISBN: 9781944934606
ISBN: 194493460X
Physical Description: print
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Portland, OR : Thorntree Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The basics -- Coming out (and staying in) -- Greedy, confused and invisible: Bi myths and legends -- The gender agenda -- Bisexuality and non-monogamy -- Dating -- Bisexual and disabled -- Bisexuals of color -- Lesser-spotted attractions -- Bisexuals and faith -- Bisexual through the years: life experiences -- Bi in the workplace -- Fictional bisexuality: reviews and reflections -- Allies in the bisexual community -- Let's do something about this: getting started in bisexual activism.