
Bi America
Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community
List Price: $42.50
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-1-56023-479-1
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 03/31/2005
- Pages: 294
Table of Contents
- Foreword (Fritz Klein, MD)
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- My Own Story
- Sources
- Who and What This Book Is About
- Chapter 1. BECAUSE
- Welcome to BECAUSE
- The Workshop
- Chapter 2. Relating Bisexuality to the World
- Bring Out the Bisexuals: The Jerry Springer Show
- The Invisible Bisexual
- The Relationship Between the Bi and the Lesbian and Gay Communities
- Chapter 3. Bisexuality Defined
- Something Men Just Do
- Sex, History, and Culture
- Models of Sexual Orientation
- Perspectives on Bisexuality
- Bisexuality As an Orientation
- Bisexuality As an Identity
- Chapter 4. In Search of a Bisexual Community
- The Picnic
- Who Are They?
- Is There a Bi Community?
- Meet the Bi Community
- Back to the Picnic
- Chapter 5. Women’s and Men’s Experiences: Penthouse Bisexuals and Support Group Men
- Kiss the Girls
- Bisexual Women
- Bisexual Men
- Chapter 6. The Transgender Community
- Bi Cities!
- What Is Transgender?
- Transgender History
- Bisexual and Transgender
- Chapter 7. What Is the Relationship Between Nonmonogamy and Bisexuality?
- The Wog
- Bisexuality, Monogamy, and American Society
- Styles of Nonmonogamy
- Last Thoughts About Monogamy
- Chapter 8. Bisexuality in the Time of AIDS
- Safer Sex Sluts
- HIV/AIDS 101
- HIV Risk and Bisexual Men
- HIV Risk and Bisexual Women
- AIDS and the Bisexual Community
- Chapter 9. The History of the Bisexual Community
- Boston, June 2002
- The Seeds of Bi Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
- The 1980s and the Second Wave of Activism
- The 1990s and Conference Culture
- Where Does That Leave the Bi Community Today?
- Chapter 10. The Future of the Bi Community: GLBT Identity versus Cyberspace
- The College Workshop
- Into the Future
- Bisexual Inclusion
- Here Comes the Internet
- Do We Want to Have a Community?
- What Is the Future of the Bisexual Community?
- Chapter 11. BECAUSE Reprise
- Back to the Workshop
- Sunday Morning Breakfast
- Appendix A. The Survey
- Appendix B. The Bisexual History Project
- Appendix C. Resources and Further Reading
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Reference Notes Included

