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Bi America

Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community

By William Burleson

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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
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Bi America

William Burleson

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Published 04/07/2005 | 978-1-56023-478-4

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