Claiming the B in LGBT : illuminating the bisexual narrative / edited by Kate Harrad ; with a foreword by H. Sharif Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrad, Kate, editor.

Sharif Williams, H., writer of foreword.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bisexuality--Great Britain.

Bisexual people--Great Britain.

Group identity--Great Britain.

Bisexuality.

Bisexual people.

Group identity.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Thorntree Press, [2018]

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. Kate Harrad's anthology of a thriving identity yearning to realize itself provides a vision of bisexuality that is beyond gay and straight, rather than left to merely occupy the space between"-- Provided by publisher.

"A guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement. The book combines a chronology of bisexual organizing with essays, poems, and articles detailing the lived experiences of bisexuasl struggling against a dominant culture driven by norms of monosexual attraction, compulsory monogamy, and notions of gender expression and identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Harrad, Kate, author. Claiming the B in LGBT

ISBN:

9781944934606

194493460X

OCLC:

1033567915