Claiming the B in LGBT
Subtitle: illuminating the bisexual narrative
By: edited by Kate Harrad with a foreword by H. Sharif Williams
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781944934606
Subjects: Bisexuals; Group identity; Bisexuality
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics; title: Coming out (and staying in); title: Greedy, confused and invisible: Bi myths and legends; title: The gender agenda; title: Bisexuality and non-monogamy; title: Dating; title: Bisexual and disabled; title: Bisexuals of color; title: Lesser-spotted attractions; title: Bisexuals and faith; title: Bisexual through the years: life experiences; title: Bi in the workplace; title: Fictional bisexuality: reviews and reflections; title: Allies in the bisexual community; title: Let's do something about this: getting started in bisexual activism.